Contradictory sensations

After being at 3800 m. yesterday, today, following the aclimatation process, we have been at 4500 m. in the Churup lake. It is a beautiful place. The Churup mountain, at an atitude of 5495 m., gives his image to the lake and that one looks like a decorative accesory as appropiate. Both of them are places of special beauty.

During the climbing, the normal sensation has occurred. The body refuses the effort that the head is offering. The heart is accelerating and the lunges are seaching air where there is not.

However, we keep going, we know this is a process we need to get through in order to get our goal.

Adrian Ucles and Raul Martinez are doing well, they climbed a difference in height of 700 m. in just one hour and a half, for me it has been harder and it lasted 20 more minutes. I still have a cold and I suffering it at each step.

The suffering process of aclimatation will be gone and only good moments will stay. We are selective beings and we use to keep what we want and reject what we do not.

Fran Lorente