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Navigating a path through these rocks will be one of the cruxes of Frippe’s ski descent, and this first reccy provided him with a look at how he’ll replica rolex Air King SS watches potentially make his way through. Despite the big snow year, the wind has scoured the ridge, leaving loads of exposed rock. It will be a difficult passage, but this first look inspires Frip with confidence. We turned to descend back to Camp 2 in shamefully slutty weather.We went to sleep in C2 ly hopeful that at least one day of our three-day window will meet the forecast, but again, we woke up to cold wind and blowing snow. Harlot. Nothing to do but descend. We gathered up the garbage and remains of a shredded tent that had been left from a previous expedition and turned towards base camp. The plan had been to scope the final crux of the ski descent--a rocky band separating C2 from the lower slopes.

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