Cancelled summit attempt

Even stronger wind today.

Returning to camp.

Ascending to get off the mountain.

Just over this ridge and then we'll descend.

Heading down.

Down at the wind shelter. Photo: Cody

Today we hiked for two hours to get to the starting point for today's object...but then we decided to turn around. There was too much avalanche risk today and first I thought like always that we will be fine let's just do it but then suddenly a lot of thoughts came through my head. I started thinking about a few of my friends and what they would have said if they were here...3 of 4 would have said no. And one of them are no longer among us. Then I started thinking about my friends who died in Kjerkfjord  and suddenly I got so emotional and my whole body screamed don't do this, turn around now! Back at the tent and the wind was getting stronger. This was not in the forecast. We thought about a second choice but that didn't look quite safe either. Then a tent pole broke and that was it, we decided to get off this mountain. So we packed everything and went up since we had to ascend before being able to descend. Wind was really strong at sometimes hard to stay upright. We took kind of a shortcut down on the other side which was not totally safe but we made it down. Down at the lake again and it was totally calm, it's like a different world down here...