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On 7th May, Gray together with Blair Falahey left C2 at 8 am. Blair Falahey had cold feet so they stopped at the German C2, which was a bit further up, for one hour to warm up. It was a very cold morning. The German and American team had fixed the route to the Makalu La. The route was very icy and rocky. They tagged the C3 site and descended to C2, where they arrived at about 7:20 pm.

On 8th May Gray descended to base camp, where he stayed until 16th May, when he went back to C2 to pick up the material they had left there.

Cortes reached C2 on 1st May. She stayed there for one night with Gray. On 2nd May, they both descended back to BC. On 5th she went back to C1 on her own to spend one night there. On 6th may, Gray went to C1 to pick her up to go to C2; however, Cortes had a bad night's sleep and decided to go back to BC. Gray continued to C2, where he stayed the night and then carried on to Makalu la the following morning.

Even though the rest of the Thamserku team decided to give it another try on 22nd May, Gray and Cortes decided to leave as they were running out of time. They left BC on 17th May.