Another important step had been done. Sunday, in a very bad weather condition we went directly to Camp 2. It had been a very hard day because the weather forced us to resist to go back and when we arrived to our deposit of C2 we had to prepare the platform on very icy surface. The night had been terribly cold. We had -35° C and we didn’t sleep well, only few hours. The day after as predicted from Karl Gabl (our forecast Man) we had a fantastic day. We waited that the sun arrived in our tend (at 8:34) and than began our action. We started to climb toward Camp 3 hoping to find old fix ropes but there weren’t… so we have to fix out thin 4 and 5 mm dyneema ropes in the most steep parts. We meet many icy slopes with green dangerous ice. We did our best and we arrived at 2-3 hours before camp 3 where the inclination of the slope become less steep. We suppose that we need 100 meters rope more and than we should start easily to walk to camp 3. So we decided to come back directly to base camp, following also the advice of the Karl Gabl that alerted us of the coming strong wind. Now we are in base camp, happy and safe and we know that the most difficult/technical part should be really fixed and done . Now we take rest and wait for the next decisive window of good weather….

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