Because we were in a rush to catch our flight, we didn't have a chance to go over much in the office before we left. After we landed on the glacier and our gear and food were unloaded, we had an impromptu lesson on how to rope up for glacier travel. When walking across glaciers there is a risk of falling into a crevasse. To aid in rescue in case someone does fall in, all members of a mountaineering party are tied into a rope spaced eight to ten meters apart from one another. Different countries use different methods and we learned how to do Kiwi coils with the excess rope. Everytime we left the hut we had to rope up, so we got very familiar with this process. After roping up we hiked up to Kelman Hut, our home for the next nine days, which looked precariously perched on a rock outcropping.