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 Going down we withdrew two tents at 7,500 and took the things that were the most valuable. Evidently we had overestimated our strength, may be because it's a pity to leave on the route all the equipment that you obtain for the expedition with such difiiculty. While we were desperately attempting to summit, the four guys from ABC tried to reach the cave, but they couldn't. We asked them by walkie-talkie not to do that. So, from August 23rd our team started taking the luggage down from the ABC to the "Chinese camp".  |
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 VOLKOV:
Right after our descent on August 25th we had a critical conversation provoked
by Volodya Udin and Victor Kolesnichenko. We were discussing the question
of going up to the mountain to take the luggage we had left there. The
risk wasn't worth the money we were lefting on the mountain. The conversation
showed all that psychological stress that accumulated for the months being
here. I think that the guys didn't estimate the reality adequately. Perhaps,
the envy began to tell, because we had got our chance and they hadn't.
Finally Ivan had stopped all the conversations and said that the expedition
was over. Nobody would be risking lives because of several thousand dollars.
That is enough!
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On the 29th everyone went down to the "Chinese camp". From the duralumin shovel we made a plate for a tombstone for Igor. Andrei Mariev designed the plate. In the area of a "Chinese camp" we made a pile of flat stones one and a half meters high. At the base of the monument we nailed a plate and left a bouquet of flowers and an ice-axe. REST IN PEACE. In the evening we had something similar to a Russian "banya" (bath) and a farewell party. We drank all the alcohol we had left except for the medical reserve. The caravan arrived on the 27th. Tomorrow we will start our trekking back home. |
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