After repeated warnings about getting an early night many of the team were still up well past midnight last night so breakfast at 06:30 was a sombre affair. The coach to Interlaken was so peaceful for a change and so was the ride to the canyon in the AlpinRaft minibus until the scenery hit another level of awesomeness. Certainly in my minibus most of us had our noses pressed hard to the glass taking in the sheer size of the mountains around here.
Canyoning started beside the road at the top of a 60m drop where we were literally thrown over on dangly little rope. This evolved into similar and certainly more extreme acts of what many would only describe as madness or worse. Sliding down rockfaces in freefall mode to hit little pools of water, zip lines under jammed boulders between tight cliff faces, jumps from 30m into rock pools and lots of coughing, spluttering and swimming. Everyone survived and had a great time.
Today was rounded off with preparations for tomorrow when we are away from base for two days climbing high into the Swiss Alps from Kandersteg to Gemmipass, overnighting up there at about 2000m (approx 6000ft) then over the top to Engstligenalp on the Adelboden side and back down. As a result you will not have an update
for the next 48hrs.
Hoping you can wait that long. In the meantime here is a little teaser for you all...
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