Day 6 - Move to Motorcycle Hill Camp (3,350 mtrs)

The morning starts with a peek outside the tent to see what weather we are going to have to contend with. 

 Although there is low cloud and it is still snowing (about 6 inches had fallen over night) it looks okish for the day. We have a quick breakfast, strike camp as head off at 9am.

In fact there is little wind and the low cloud is keeping the heat in so I end up just walking in a shirt for most of the day.

The difficult part is tying to guess what the weather will be like for the next hour at each stop to make sure you do not get too hot or cold before the next chance to change at the next stop in an hours time.
By the time we get to camp we have walked above much of the low cloud and the sun comes out. The sun has in fact been doing a fair bit during the day and there are a few red faces and noses especially. Time to break out the nose guard - this is basically a small piece of foam that attaches to your sunglasses and covers your nose as the strong sun up here means that it will burn very quickly.

The afternoon is relaxing in the tents. We are now up on the serious part of the mountain and it can get seriously windy up here. To protect ourselves and the tents we camp within snow walls - quite luckily the good weather has really emptied the mountain and so there are plenty of spaces for us to much right in without having to do much building ourselves.

Protected tents

Another group from the same company is 'racing' down as it is first come first served at the airport to get off the glacier still and so they jump into our mess tent for a quick supper after we have finished at about 20:30 before carrying on down through the evening.

Food:
Oatmeal and bagels (quick and easy food for days when we are moving)
Pesto pasta and sausages