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BC at Sabje Khola
C3 at top of ridge
High point on NW Ridge.

Two attempts to push beyond C3 (14 and 15 Nov):

13th Nov up from C3 to 6450m and back to C3 because of wind and Sherpas slight frostbite. This team's 3 members (Padezanin, Micovic and Milojevic) and Dawa and Nima Sherpas on 14th down to BC.

Next time 3 members on 14th arrived C3 and slept at 6500m in a tent which had hoped to put at 6800-7000m as C4 but stopped at 6500m because wind made it impossible to start up (and was blowing ice snow horizontally, which can wound one's face). 16th down to BC and climb finished: strong winds and very cold (-20 degrees in rucksack on 15th and even at BC -20 to -40 degrees all day) and half-meter new snow at BC (snowfall had delayed establishment of C3).

Left BC 20 Nov. Fixed 700m rope (350m just below C1) and used some other expedition's new fixed rope.