Today’s first stretch brought us out of the icefall. That’s worth celebrating. The icefall has been a bit harder than we anticipated, and we’re happy that we now have it behind us. After this we moved into an area that is tilted slightly upwards, and has a flatter surface.

We’ve covered 231 altitude meters and eighth lengths today, and we felt this in our legs tonight. During the day we passed crevasses big enough to swallow a bus, but the snow bridges are thick, and we feel quite safe. We steered towards DYE II today, and broke off 10 km before Dog Camp, a known point on our route. We’re now about 150 km from the abandoned radar station.

Finally we want to say thank you to Clara for the great cake, it really saved us today when we were about to set up camp and felt completely worn out.

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