Major change - We were all geared up to move up to the Hornli hut tomorrow (Wednesday) for an attempt on the Matterhorn on Thursday but we are having to move the climb day back to Friday.
We heard tonight that there has been a mix up at the hut and they don't have us booked in until Thursday night. Although this is their mistake the hut is full tomorrow so we will have to move back our climb day to Friday.
Whilst this was an initial disappointment - we are all ready to go - we are going to use tomorrow as a rest day and also a chance to spend a bit more time at altitude before the climb and give our bodies more time to build up the red blood cells needed to perform at altitude.
We only found out because one our guides is going up the Matterhorn tomorrow and so is in the Hornli hut tonight. while chatting with the hut guardian he discovered the mistake. The good news is that we discovered this tonight and not after we all trekked the two and a half hours up to the hut tomorrow! The weather forecast for Friday is also still good although things are set to change on Saturday so we need things to go smoothly now.
No comments:
Post a Comment