  White. All white. I'm sick of seeing white. Any other color right now would be great except white. The sky is white with the falling snow - that is, if you can call it "falling" when it is driving into your face like mosquitos in the amazon.
From the outside you can't even tell our tent is yellow, then again, you can't even tell it's a tent. We have been at base camp near "dehra," but still many clicks away, for close to a week now - stranded by the wall of snow, wind and ice. Even if we tried to walk down to our pick up LZ, we have no idea which direction to even try to go.
The genious of our team used the batteries for our GPS system for his electric socks two nights ago and by the time he realized what he did, the batteries were as dead as a deaf yak in New York. But the team figured that if we couldn't last any longer that he'd be the first guy we'd eat. Good and tender back muscles, you know. Most everyone's attitudes are great, the weather is showing signs of breaking soon and we've got enough food for at least another few days. Although, sometimes, I wish I can just press pause on the yappers. I have not heard back from our other team which was supposed to meet up with us here from the east face. They went to check out an area that we have not been yet. All we know of these villages are what we saw from the satalite photos taken earlier last spring.
For all I know they could be out getting a cappuccino. That's the last thing I would do on a night like this even if I had the chance. Sometimes there's nothing sweeter than getting away from the group and just hanging with the Father. The sound of the wind is like a clock ticking away through the night. Hawaii does sound nice at this point, even a nice weekend gettaway to Egypt for the low price of 399 euro all inclusive with hotel.
As it is, we are sticking this weather out - it's not like we can just quit now and decide to get on the next train to the airport and fly home to sweet sweet America. But then again... Well, I think yak ribs are on the menu tonight. It does't get any better than that. 
