The cohort of climbers you go up with become very important to you. You wait for your friends at each camp and share your stories about how you are feeling and how your climb was. You also start to hear many tales from the peak. Many people come down disappointed in not having made the summit, others are in much worse shape due to the altitude or physical injury.
Anyway, I made it to Horombo and had a nice dinner. The dinner gave me some energy. After my meal I lightly jogged over to my hut, but when I got there, I nearly passed out! That little bit of exertion, coupled with the minimal oxygen, left me gasping for air. That's when I started to understand the magnitude of this climb. Horombo Hut is not even half-way in terms of altitude. I still had another 3000 meters to climb!
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