DUSHARIN:
On the 18th of August, after having a rest in the base camp, the group
of Udin descended to the "Chinese camp". Volodya asked me about the plan
of the expedition's work in the nearest future. I said that the tragedy
had changed our plans. The goal would be to find Igor's body and to shoot
it on a video if possible (carrying a body down from that altitude is absolutely
impossible). It was impossible to carry the body down. We could only attempt
to summit, if weather conditions were acceptable. While we were in the
base camp waiting for the weather, Luba checked our physical condition.
The guys were recovering little by little. Sergei Sokolov had troubles
with his frostbitten feet. I think that Luba, giving some injections and
pills, had saved him from amputation. Sergei Penzov was also frostbitten,
but much less serious. Misha Ishutin felt worst then others, he was coming
to himself very slow. Volodya Udin had serious bronchial troubles. He insisted
on one more attempt, but Luba strongly objected that it would be fatal
for him to ascent above 8,000m. So after the examination I said that only
7 people could go up. They were all four guys from my group, two from the
group of Udin (Jirakovskiy and Meshkov) and Andrei Mariev from the group
of Dosaev.
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Doctor's physical before the last attempt
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