10/10
... breakfast at 6:00, starting at 7:20.
Backpacks light legs and full of energy. ... . We face the small Eiger from another channel more 'to the left, with a goal' one step a little 'technical snow / ice ax anyway without affront. We try to make the climb as much as 'quickly as possible' cause the mountain above the wall and loads and we are very afraid of avalanches. ... . We leave the small Eiger and is now sinking a casino ... I have the skis and I think that would be a lot less work to proceed on skis, but for solidarity 'with Ivo alternative set proceed to beat the track.
Arrived pero 'just before the plateau, take off my helmet and I say I'm sorry to Ivo, but now I put the skis ... We come to the spacing Ivo canaleta a bit ', and skis, does not fit even crampons 'cause the snow and' not so deep that they serve. Ivo and 'away and I start to fly. The snow and 'a lot, fatigue and' a lot, proceed (without enlarging things really) sinking into snow up to my hips on a wall of 45 °. To address the next step is forced to dig his knee forward by a semicircular, and also removing the snow with the stick. With great effort comes on top, threw the backpack on the floor and filmed the arrival of Ivo in the meantime I have achieved. ... in the meantime started to snow fall and fog. Soon after will rise 'even the wind, so' when we take the path we are forced to use GPS. ... . Arrival at C1 at 15:40 and find a nice surprise: no tent. In its place a pile of snow ... I start to dig the tent but nothing. When it comes Ivo decide to take turns shoveling 15 '. Both want to keep us warm shovel, and shovel and 'only. ... we started from base camp light clothing and without even the front, thinking to arrive at C1, maybe dig a little ', and retrieve the material left there ... at 18:15 dug without finding anything. Now look at me and Ivo under the snow, wind, twilight imminent and all wet with a layer of snow on the hood, I address these words: "But now we die?", Then we consult a moment and decide to dig a Trun that gives us a minimum of shelter for the night and maximum, there is' the full moon, we can wait a bit to lighten 'the path and then, if we have too cold, we can come back down'. ... . Fortunately, soon after, continuing to dig, Ivo collides with the blade of a curtain rod. Screams of joy and happiness. Delve more 'than an hour to leave the tent but' and 'useless, destroyed. ... . We are about three meters in depth '. In the end, and 'came a pretty Trun.
... . We enter the sleeping bag with all the clothes we have on him and wet ... we put a bit 'to keep warm, but eventually the temperature is acceptable, although the snow that enters the entry makes me freeze my feet. 10:40 hours we say good night.
11/10
Wake up call at 5:00 but we linger a little longer 'so in the heat of the sleeping bag. ... . At 8:10 we start to reach C2. We are tired and a little 'damp, but happy to have it resolved last night. Proceed slowly.
At 10:00 the clouds begin to arrive ... needless to say, half an hour and time: visibility 'zero wind and snow. Cosi 'at 10:40 we decided to go back to C1. At 14:00 we shoved in a sleeping bag and doze until 17:00, then tea, dinner and bedtime. the next day we decide to leave at 2:00, as it brightens more and more 'or less at midnight, and then it is always a bad thing at 11:00. At 2:00
12/10
accurate are out of Trun.
clear skies and biting cold. Hours 2:20 departure. Ivo and 'already' from 10 'but in the short reach and exceed it. Power ski ... . I feel good and pumps great. The cold and 'intense and at times increased by gusts of wind that will become more and more' strong and continuing as we approach the day. ... . Moments' hard from 4:30 to 5:30. ... . The landscape and 'completely changed. There are more 'cracks to get around, now it' s a whole mass of snow with a few holes here and there '. ... .
At about 7:00 arrival at the point where the GPS tells me that there should be a C2, so 'I start to dig. Excavation for about two hours before arrival Ivo. His face and 'a form of fatigue and suffering. He tells me that he had problems with only their hands wet and light gloves. I think I was cool with me moffoloni high altitude ... . To hands and hard labor for the snow, I say that Ivo and 'What a beautiful bulldog. Just great. We start to dig alternating, having a single blade, but nothing. After two hours, with clouds coming and exhausted, we decide to pack them '. Budget: C2 lost with all the material for the high altitude and the deposit for C3 ... . The only consolation with an unforgettable ski descent from C2 to C1. 800 meters of dust fantastic. ... I continue to base camp, with the skis are more 'fast and less tiring, while Ivo decides to stay one more night at C1 a bit' with fatigue, but also because 'I tell' Then he wanted to stay a day only to absorb everything that had happened in those days, and the fact of having lost all that material without even having arrived near the top. But what most 'rode, and rode to me, and' the fact that it did not even had the chance 'to try.
... . At 14:25 arrival at base camp
13/10 8:00
The have gone from a piece when I decide to exit the tent. Just outside, my eyes go straight to the hill to the C1. I notice the tracks down by Ivo and immediately calms me.
(Ivo just below the Eiger small, at the end of his labors)
... arrive at an altitude of 6000 in an hour and a half and of course came the clouds and a bit 'of wind and started to sleet. We make the deposit, let us mark with GPS and go back on our tracks.
vedercela with a large crack across to overcome rising ... we lose approximately 50 minutes to pass and a cold wind starts to blow. With difficulty we arrived at an altitude of 6500 meters.