 For this trip, the couple hired six Italian porters from the Alps, 200 local porters, and Savoye returned as guide.As Isserman, Weaver and Molenaar explain in their history of Himalayan mountaineering, the Workmans despised the local porters but were forced to recruit them; "their otherwise invaluable books read like one long, anguished harangue against the lazy, lying, thieving, mutinous cheats on whom they unhappily depended for local support".They planned a sequence of four camps from to .