14 Days wearing Roman Armour - Day 14

This is actually day 19. After the first foiled attempt to reach the mountain top on actual day 14 (in the playlist it’s day 13), we decided to wait for beter conditions. I continued the armour experiment for another 5 days when finally the temperatures dropped by 15° Celsius and the sky cleared up. Because of the really high avalanche risk we had to look for an equally high but very flat sloped and safe mountain. We found it in the “Saualpe“ in Carinthia. The ascend was not terribly steep, but long. We started early in the morning and returned as the sun had already set. Unfortunately bad weather suddenly appeared as we were a few 100m away from the summit. Strong winds frosty temperatures and both our exhaustion levels made us opt for return without reaching the summit finally. Up to 1m deep snow was at stages tremendously exhausting to cross and overcome. I frequently broke into sink holes and had to pull myself out. I know now what I need to dearly change in my
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