In the early morning I was awoken by some ticking on my tent. It was Sacha, and he said to get up. My watch was saying it was 0500, later I learned I had to forward my watch another hour. So in fact it was only 0600 which was ok. I walked up the water source again for a quick wash. After getting back we broke up camp. Me and Dmitry left early and said goodbye to friendly Sacha. The two Czechs were still sleeping. Not sure if this was related to the large bottle of vodka or samagon they had with them!

We slept at about 2100m and the plan for today was to walk up to 3000m and make camp there. We know about mounain sickness, and were careful about this. It was really nice walk up the mountain and we already saw the peak in the morning. The views were great, but the hike was strenuous. I could immediately feel the lower amount of oxygen, and of course my heavy pack. Our packs were around 25kg as we were carrying lots of gear and food with us.

Nothing special happened, the path was easy to follow and we reached the Sabertse shrine around 1100 in the morning. After that there was a pereval towards another camping spot. Just before that we had to cross a little, fast flowing mountain river. Appearantly they have put up a little bridge. I was starting to feel a headache and realised my head was turning around when I crossed the narrow bridge. It was time indeed to make camp again.

It was still quite early in the day when we pitched our tents and made camp. We were the first ones and had the best place to choose. We could have walked further but as I was starting to feel first signs of mountain sickness this would be not a good idea!

We further rested, talked a lot and made dinner. When darkness came we would try to get some rest. It was already getting quite cold here, we just reached 3000m. Surprisingly during the night some people arrived who also pitched their tents and they started to sign and make noise! Dmitry told something bad after which it was quiet again. Good man!