Day 5: Zebra Rock from Horombo

We have been eating a lot of Ibuprofen and little food sore mussels headaches we had a great day today we climbed to Zebra Rock 16,000ft and back my back is getting better and Luke and Gabe are feeling better lots of rest.  the clear day gives us a clear view of the summit covered in snow.  Looking like its just over the hill.  We see the zombies returning to camp that afternoon speaking of the awful night they just had.  We spend time in camp people from all over the world in and out.  The summit will start from here and over the next 36 hours we will on our feet 24 of them so we enjoy a easy day and one to recover.

Gabe made a fashion statement with all the climbing fashion  snobs on the mountain breaking out the "jorts" Jean shorts he purchased at good will.  Everyone was impressed and will probably start a trend.

Mr. Chow leaves us for Kibo and his summit attempt.  We are awaken by his party this morning at the public sink which is out side of our door.  Vomiting and clearing of all mucus are a early morning ritual that we have been observing they are always the first to leave camp and last to get back.

We don't sleep tonight it is cold we drank our gallon of water each like every other day but today because we only walked 3 hours we are up all night going to the bathroom.  When you get back in your sleeping bag it takes an hour for you to get warm enough to sleep. We leave for Kibo at 7am a 5 hour walk again to 16,000 ft.

Luke

Gabe,
Feeling better, apologizing in advance for grammatical errors I’m too tired to care and Dad can’t write correctly in the first place.  But went to zebra rock today it was pretty cool to have a day to chill a little bit and not walk 1000 miles.  Dad will not get off our backs about this dang blog, every 5 seconds all I hear is blog, blog, blog.  So I did it.