Sleeping at: Concordia (Rest Day) Sleeping Altitude: 4590m Trekking Distance: 18.7 km Day: 17 There were 2 big events today, the first reduced our party by 2 members, the 2nd could have taken out 2 more of us... Event 1 happened within an hour or so of leaving Concordia enroute to Broad Peak base Camp (4600m). Chisato, Fernando, Anthony, Gen, Danny, Lynton, Juma, Ishpak (our kitchen porter) and I left at 0700, we picked our way along the moraine, the French group were ahead of us so we watched their progress with interest. Juma chose a similar route to them, reading the safest way to traverse a non existent trail. It wasn't massively difficult but you had to set carefully due to the ice and moving rocks. After we had cleared some challenging parts of the
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