It's time

Frustratingly, the weather forecast has been completely wrong for the past two days. Instead of ferocious winds there apparently has been hardly breeze up top (at Camp 3). It now looks very likely that the path to the summit will be fixed by the Sherpas on the 9th and 10th May and four of our group have been selected to try to summit just behind them around 12th/13th May.

To be in position we are now moving back up to Camp 2 tomorrow (hopefully the last 3:30 AM wake-up call...), have a rest day at Camp 2 on Thursday, then move to Camp 3 on Friday, and to Camp 4/ the South Col on Saturday, where we hope to arrive by lunchtime. The push to the summit would then be overnight from Saturday night to Sunday morning.

A typical summit day begins around 9 PM with eight or so hours walking to the summit to then have all day to return to Camp 4/ South Col which typically takes 4-5 hours.

Then again, the weather it might change its mind again and we could linger for a few days at Camp 2 or come back down to Base Camp. That's the way it is in the mountains. A lot of "ready... set....wait"...

Hopefully however, this is indeed the final push...