08Hotel after it dropped its sling and set down. All the snow has been blown away from the area under the prop wash. The beautiful peaks in the background would soon become familiar, as they were the backdrop for our work for the next months. After landing we unloaded all the gear we had with us, which, as it turned out, was not all the gear that we wanted. Imagine that if we don't tell anyone what gear we need in the first flights, we might not get the gear we wanted in the first flights (like the two burner Coleman stoves, rather than just the three one-burner Wisperlites from our survival bags one of which, though brand new, happened to be faulty)...