Traces of storms are evident in the drifting snow around the drilling equipment loads awaiting the heliocopter at Quintino Sella Base Camp. The weather, fine when the picture was taken on May 30th, soon deteriorated.

The weather teased us today, starting out promisingly enough but slowly deteriorating into the late morning. A stream of radio messages gave reports to David Fisher at the ICE communications centre at Kluane Lake. It gradually became evident that weather was not going to cooperate, and by late afternoon the teams reluctantly ceased their expectations. The forecast is not good for the next couple of days, but in these high mountains, nothing is certain. So all three teams on the mountain remain alert.

The number of people on the teams at Prospector-Russell (six) and King Col (three) remain the same, but the Quintino Sella team was reduced to five when John Legg, as scheduled, was flown out to Kluane. He will continue to prepare daily reports for the ICE2001 website.

Another mountain climbing party came down out of the King Trench today, after having successfully reached their goal of Logan's 5959-metre peak. They were on the mountain for twenty days, reaching the summit on 26 May. Their final push to the summit was a 21-hour day- exhausting but not unusual. The ICE2001 team thanks them for their gift of food and fuel left with the King Col team on the way down.