Day 10  -  Rest day at Camp 3

Up early and the whole camp site has been covered in snow from an overnight storm, but it is a clear morning with a great view.

Other groups doing a small carry to Camp Cholera. Interesting to note the differences between the very laissez faire British style and the treat you as a kid and do and control most things for you US style - especially as I will have at least 2 US trips this year. Not sure how well I will take to that style (those who know me well must have a very rye smile now)...
Am was sitting around chatting and listening to music before the weather started to build just before lunch:

 Snow started to fall at about half one so back into tents then. We all emerge in the pm for a bit - slight improvement in the weather and we are all getting tired of spending so much time in the tents.
Forecast is similar for next few days- clear sunny am with winds and snow starting in the pm. But the weather in general has been pretty good for the past few days and I just hope that we don't come to look back at these rest days as having pushed us past the weather window - conditions can change very fast in the mountains.
The group is a two speed group so just hope that we can organize a two speed summit attempt to be up there in the much better morning conditions rather than letting them go by as we move slowly up the mountain and take the lottery of the afternoon weather. Had reserved reactions when raising this so far - will see what a more direct approach results in tomorrow.
Confusion over the changed schedule (or a risky approach given a desire to have had lighter loads on the carry days) means that one person has not brought up enough food from camp 1 for the summit (he is given some food by one of the others) and others only enough for if we successfully summit at our first attempt - a little risky but hopefully ok.

Food today:
All day breakfast (fd) not bad but did not seem able to rehydrate all the bits.
Nuts, salami, cereal and chocolate bars.
Lamb stew with pearl barley (fd) - again not able to rehydrate all of it even trying longer than the recommended time. Next will try more water and even longer.