Day 5

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Karanga Camp (13,800′) to Barafu Camp (15,200′)

We had a short hike today (3-4 hours). It was a weird day. Winds were hollering when we arrived at camp at noon. I found some brand new tiolets at the camp....after days of enduring smelly tiolets, you can imagine my joy at the sight of new tiolets...I think I might have been the first few that christened the new tiolets.

I had a quick lunch and went to sleep. I woke up at around 6pm for dinner (some people skipped dinner to get more sleep - now looking back, I wished I had done that). It was hard to sleep so early (7pm). I was anxious about the summit. A group of us were to start hiking at 11pm, an hour earlier than the rest of the group so that we will have a better chance to getting to the summit in time to see the sun rise.

I put on: 2 liner socks, 1 thick wool socks, ski pant, 2 wick short sleeve shirts, 1 fleece top, 1 Northface soft shell jacket, 1 Northface waterproof jacket with soft shell, 1 balaclava hat, a Northface ski gloves with fleece liner.

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