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Advanced Base Camp
21:30
Hello,
The team started to climb for the summit around 21:15. We'll try to inform you as there is any progress. I wish strength to our team and to us.
What is it that stays on the branch but not in the hand: A bird? 16:00
The team has reached to the camp 3 by the time of 3PM. They are planning to depart for the summit at 9PM in the evening. Until this time, they will try to gain the fluid that they have lost and will rest. The weather is clear however there is wind. According to the weather reports the wind will decrease its power tonight and tomorrow morning. I hope the weather would come true as is forecasted.
Hakan Kocakulak
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Advanced Base Camp
The team departed for camp 2 this morning, around 10AM. A while ago, around 6PM we had a talk with them via walkie-talkie. Their voices were very thick and strong. They arrived to camp 2 as the whole team. They are resting for tomorrow because tomorrow will be a long day. They will first go to the camp 3 at 8300 meters and then will start to climb for the summit.
Two of the sherpas went with the team yesterday, today we sent two more sherpas. The group went before checked the oxygen bottles that were above. Of course, they were stolen. So, this morning, we walked around the camps, bought oxygen bottles and sent them with the sherpas went today.
Towards the ends of the expedition, the food is getting worse. However, Elif made our chief to cook a roasted meat with egg for the lunch. We almost ate the plates. We are longing for the food of Turkey. All the conversations are somehow ending with food stories and recipes.
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Advanced Base Camp
Our team of 6 people, Serhan, Burçak, Meltem, Suna, Mustafa and Bora has departed for the North Col for the second and the last trial, this morning. Soner, Elif, Mustafa (Temiztaş) and I gave our friends a hug and saw them off. We learned that they arrived to the camp following the conversation we had via walkie-talkie towards the evening. They are now resting at the camp and preparing for tomorrow. They will depart for the camp 2 at 7800 meters tomorrow morning at 8AM.
Hakan Kocakulak
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Advanced Base Camp
 While coming here, we talked a lot about the difficult relationships of the base camp life of high altitude mountaineering. We mentioned about some large and small quarrels in between the different camps and nations. As obstinacy with all what we have said, we established some excellent friendships! We met some amazing people. We had friends ‘like us’. We had Brazilian, Norwegian, Swedish sincere friends who were giving information and sharing even without being asked for. In a very short period of time at the base camp, we formed a relationship with some of them that we shared a lot. We liked them a lot and got closer.
Yesterday, we lost our Tomas from Sweden in an unlucky accident happened on his way down from the summit.
And today, we learned that our Brazilian Vitor, who almost became a member of our team, got sick at 8600 meters and has perished at the time he was descended to 8300 meters.
Here, is a very different mountain, a very different place. We appreciate the ones who stand here all alone.
Thanks that we are together.
Mustafa, Suna and Meltem departed from the Base Camp; today they will stay at the middle camp and be here tomorrow. We will again be crowd. It will be very good. Serkan is below with Rodrigo who is the friend of Vitor and will accompany him to come above according to his plan. We came across with a very good opportunity from the base camp and found a place for one person in a vehicle that rarely goes directly to Kathmandu. For this reason, we separated Haldun from Serkan and sent him to Kathmandu to put the things about our approaching return on the track.
Tomorrow we are hoping to clarify the date of our second trial for the summit. We are making use of all our weather condition channels for this purpose. We hope the date that Burçak, Meltem, Suna, Mustafa, Bora and Serhan with three Sherpas who we could persuade will depart, will be determined by tomorrow.
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