Challenging times, From Camp 3 yesterday...

​I’ve no signal but expect it will pop in at some point. 

Pete and I have had a challenging time with hearing all the news from K2 and here.
Rick Allen was a good, good man who we had coffee with just a few days ago. I wrote of him in my last blog and he supplied us with some really great information which undoubtedly saved further casualties. He was a gentleman on the mountain and epitomised Great British eccentricity. Both Pete and I send our condolences to his team mates and family, British mountaineering has lost a true inspiration.

With a weather window today we hope to try and push for the summit. We are tired and would obviously have preferred not to have been doing this twice but……. We are very much realists on this mountain and at 7200 me know the script, we know what needs to be done.