Up to the top

Yesterday we made it to the top of the mountain with these three British guys. Molly, the only girl, was felling actually a bit ill, nauseas, headache… she didn’t eat much on the last two days so she was quite weak. We stopped a truck going up to the top and we asked is they could bring her up there. The men of the truck offered us even to go all of us, but we refused. The road was really bad, and we went up 1200 m high in less than 30 km… a challenge by itself.  However as close we got to the top as worst it got. On the last 7 km we had a heavy mountain storm. Suddenly ice stones were cracking into our heads and the road turned into a river. We were surrounded by snow. But with great effort we could finally culminate the top, 2200 m high. We got to the top soaked wet and freaking cold. Luckily for us was a restaurant up there, and we decided to spend the night.

Next day I had to go on. Petr decided to join me. Since He is going to the Pamirs, he also needs to go there before the end of summer. So we had to divide the group. Molly was still weak. We gave them all medicines and all we could gather. It was sad, I been with them just 2 days, Petr was with them about 2 weeks crossing Turkey. But even for me was really sad. We could do nothing, she just needs to rest, but even thou was tough to leave someone behind…  You could not imaine how easy you made bonds with these travelers.

So we continued down the north/east face of the mountain.  The first 30 km were even worse than the way up, and I was really happy we stopped and wormed up last night. Some parts of the path were actually a river. A real river, not a small string crossing the road. So we had to remove our shoes and walk for few meters on the freezing water. Luckily was sunny.

At the end of the day we found an abandoned rafting cap site, where we decided o spend the night. An old woman with a nearby shop cooked for us and gave us a bottle of homemade wine for free. To warm up, as she said in a poor Russian.

Here I found my first poker card. A number T card. Yes, a number T card,