Day 16. April, 25. BC (5200 m) - MC (5800 m)
It all started from Friday - April, 24 - Roman Reutov's birthday. Kitchenboys cooked a big pan of buckwheat on his special order.
There was a lot more, than only buckwheat, so the team of the '7 summits' club had a big party. They, probably, forgot, that on Saturday morning they have to go to MC for the overnight acclimatization stay. They sang and danced up to the midnight, and as a result, nor everybody was able to wake up in time - until the moment of the load of baggage on yaks. Bogomolov and I decided not to wait for yaks and the rest of the group: we put our stuff to the heap, from where yakmen took stuff to load it on yaks to bring it to ABC, and we went on foot to the middle camp.
No one knew or even presumed, that when Sergey and I will pass the place named Yak Point, where I took a photo in a pose of a thinker for the post of the day 14, April, 23d, the earthquake will happen, which will destroy a half of Katmandu and which will cause the avalanche, which will descend on the base camp of Everest from the south side.
If not to be lazy and go check that post - it is easy to be seen, what beautiful stone pillars the nature made. That is the southern slope, and it is always more ruined, than the northern slope, because the sun heats it. This is a work of the wind, the sun and the frost and it looks really great.
Exactly at 12:00 on Nepal time from the couloirs, which were right above us, we heard the roar of the rockfall. The sound was like a big amount of stones falls down and it was soon clear, that this amount of stones falls right towards us. We immediately ran to the huge boulder to hide behind it - it was our luck that this boulder was close to the path.
30 seconds later the rockfall reached us, but its main part slowed down higher on the slope. I counted about 5-7 huge stones with the size of a good travelling suitcase. They flew by, but it was not the scariest: when the huge stone with great power fall on the ground - the smallest stones fly in different directions like a grape-shot - and that is what really scary.
The distance from the path to the end of the slope - 400-500 meters in vertical direction. this photo is not clear, because it was taken at the time of video recording. You can watch the video here: http://youtu.be/8NnqGw6q5PU (if some Russian bad words won't confuse you). Since I saw the rockfall from the very center of events for the first time in my life - it impressed me a lot. It is very terrifying. Except for rockfalls there were several small avalanches on our way, for example this one:
So, maneuvering between the rockfalls and avalanches we got to the middle camp, where we stayed for the night.
It all started from Friday - April, 24 - Roman Reutov's birthday. Kitchenboys cooked a big pan of buckwheat on his special order.
There was a lot more, than only buckwheat, so the team of the '7 summits' club had a big party. They, probably, forgot, that on Saturday morning they have to go to MC for the overnight acclimatization stay. They sang and danced up to the midnight, and as a result, nor everybody was able to wake up in time - until the moment of the load of baggage on yaks. Bogomolov and I decided not to wait for yaks and the rest of the group: we put our stuff to the heap, from where yakmen took stuff to load it on yaks to bring it to ABC, and we went on foot to the middle camp.
The climate is such, here is not a plain -
Comes avalanches' an infinite chain.
And after stone-falls another will roar, -
Vladimir Vysotsky
Comes avalanches' an infinite chain.
And after stone-falls another will roar, -
Vladimir Vysotsky
No one knew or even presumed, that when Sergey and I will pass the place named Yak Point, where I took a photo in a pose of a thinker for the post of the day 14, April, 23d, the earthquake will happen, which will destroy a half of Katmandu and which will cause the avalanche, which will descend on the base camp of Everest from the south side.
If not to be lazy and go check that post - it is easy to be seen, what beautiful stone pillars the nature made. That is the southern slope, and it is always more ruined, than the northern slope, because the sun heats it. This is a work of the wind, the sun and the frost and it looks really great.
Exactly at 12:00 on Nepal time from the couloirs, which were right above us, we heard the roar of the rockfall. The sound was like a big amount of stones falls down and it was soon clear, that this amount of stones falls right towards us. We immediately ran to the huge boulder to hide behind it - it was our luck that this boulder was close to the path.
30 seconds later the rockfall reached us, but its main part slowed down higher on the slope. I counted about 5-7 huge stones with the size of a good travelling suitcase. They flew by, but it was not the scariest: when the huge stone with great power fall on the ground - the smallest stones fly in different directions like a grape-shot - and that is what really scary.
The distance from the path to the end of the slope - 400-500 meters in vertical direction. this photo is not clear, because it was taken at the time of video recording. You can watch the video here: http://youtu.be/8NnqGw6q5PU (if some Russian bad words won't confuse you). Since I saw the rockfall from the very center of events for the first time in my life - it impressed me a lot. It is very terrifying. Except for rockfalls there were several small avalanches on our way, for example this one:
So, maneuvering between the rockfalls and avalanches we got to the middle camp, where we stayed for the night.
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