I spoke to Mark this morning and did he have an exciting day! Today was the day they started skills training on glaciers. They had to get in full gear (like in the photo above) and practice climbing up and repelling down massive glaciers. Mark says, "just putting on your boots leaves you exhausted so the day was more than a workout for them all."

Mark is constantly impressed with the quality of food given to them in such remote locations. After they got to the first Base Camp, he's not had to struggle for a moment with what was being served. He told me, "last night, after the tough day at the glaciers they enjoyed Yak meat tacos!" I'm thinking ewwww, but he said "they were great!"

Rest up climbers, you have another day of skills training ahead of you!