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Se'erdengpu, China, Big/Cold Wall 10-Dec-2015 At 5:37:05 PM Tripleshot

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Yes saw the boulder cave. Dan commented on the boulder.
We excavated the higher cave so its livable for 2 if you go back.
We found the ascent schedule ok, a bit heady for Dan on the last night but passing, but doable. Id just been above 5000m elsewhere and had a degree of acclimation left it seems.

We opted for going up the middle as the collected snow under corner was too dodgy.

Yep its beautiful ice into the bottom of the pillar. Steep but solid.

Over 9 days below it we saw no rockfall at all. Only spindrift flowing down the face. Seemed really consolidated.

Having done a few winters out there i say the factors needing solutions to be:
- further accumulation of snow needing detouring around
- how long you can stay up there in the cold. New year is much colder.
- the loads and bivies to sort the issues

it would be a tight equation but doable i think.