New audio update from TA on Elbrus.

This is the text of TA’s audio message:

Hi this is TA calling in from the foot of Mount Elbrus in Russia.  We arrived here after a fairly long day of travel, up early to get to the airport, a couple hours of flying on Aeroflot, then another four hours of driving and trying to find one of our gangs luggage, we are hoping that it gets here soon for him.  We had a wonderful dinner, we are staying at a brand new ski lodge here tomorrow we start our acclimatization walk/hike/climb.  It sounds like we are going to be down in the valley here for three or four nights and then we will start t moving up the mountain to the various huts.  So time to start drinking lots of water, getting well hydrated because we made a big jump we are at 2350 metres above sea level just around 7500 feet or so.  So far so good, the foots alright, the backs alright, holding their own.  Although, it was a bit iffy moving some of the bags suddenly I wished I had packed much lighter as I often do

So that’s me checking in here from the foot of Mount Elbrus

Talk to you again tomorrow

Take care

TA