Victory!
Day Two: We only bloody made it!
Woke up the next day. Sun is up visability is good. Nicky has sinking feeling that the mission has not been aborted! : / We start out 3 hours early. Hoping the sun wouldn’t start melting the ice-morter that glues old snow faces together, til lunch time… We pegged it up the mountain like a ferret up a trouser leg - this time me ’speaking forcefully’ at Cookie to get a move on! Acutely aware of the rock debris around.
Pic below shows the pass we sped across ( and up ).
Quick pit stop after the mega windy ( sheerface ) crest of the pass, in an emergency hut for cheese sandwiches. Beers ahoy once over the snow to the valley. Then a swift 8 mile decent through the valley to Engleberg… Phew! Big day.
Day Three: All safe and well, bloggin from a cafe in Engleberg ( AngelMountain ). Slept face down on a bed most of today. It was amazing.
Bought ice axes and crampons for tomorrow. Jockpass awaits ….
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