Well, last night I reached well the biggest low on the trip and burst into tears. Couldn’t stop. Really for a very silly reasons. Just because I’m so cold, you won’t believe that the cold can bring you to tears like that but it has and I’m sure it will again, yet. Well, it’s colder here than I felt in the Arctic although it isn’t that cold
But we don’t have the warm clothes that we had before or we don’t have a nice hot drinks coming into or big sleeping bag and I mean no fault of the sleeping bag but we have brought bags for weight reasons that are just warm enough to survive but not warm enough for comfort and I’m wearing every single item of clothing I have every hour of the days as it is and we don’t have enough fuels for warm drinks. So, I’m just really, really suffering from the cold and it just brought me down yesterday and exploded in to tears and to make it worst, you know, you get tired if you don’t sleep and then you feel the cold more. It’s kind vicious circle that’s biting me at the moment and I can’t keep the food down. We’ve got these added supplement of cheese powder and AMS which are the 2 things that have changed since, over the last week since I felt quite ill and so I’m losing a lot of weight ’cause I can’t obviously get out all the calories that I am putting in ’cause it’s coming out one end or another quicker than it’s going in. So, I’m actually going to stop the AMS and cheese powder and just see if I can keep down just a normal evening meal as it is and then hopefully, stop losing the weight as fast as I am. So, yeah, all that was a bit down really but today, I am much much better.
We’re having a fairly good weather. Really, really strong winds hitting us on the side but it wasn’t snowing and the clouds are pretty sparce. It was just a strong wind. So, we can still see where we’re going and navigation is pretty easy. So, actually this morning we did a radio interview BBC Somerset with Emma Britten. That should be going out in the morning. That was lovely to speak to somebody.
We’re actually camp outside Mount Fitz Roy region which is really fairly well known pinnacle mountain. Really, known for serious climbing and it’s quite different to all the other mountain here. It’s really jagged peak. I’m sure it’s the most it’s the most photographed place in Patagonia, all be it not from this side, they would have been photographing from the other side to where we are. But its nice to see a landmark. The only other thing to say is, over the last week, we’ve been doing some analysis with Sarah and hopefully she’ll have put on either today or maybe tomorrow some evaluations on how we’re fairing in the minds whether she things we’re going cuckoo or if we’re doing okay. I don’t know. So, that’s it for today. We’ll speak tomorrow. Bye.
