2021 K2 Concludes
Our 2021 K2 expedition is now concluded with just Garrett and our crew preparing to fly home. Expedition leader, Garrett Madison, calls in from Skardu, Pakistan with this final expedition dispatch:
Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the Madison Mountaineering K2 expedition which now has concluded!
We’re back in Skardu and all of our members from the UK, the USA, and Ukraine have flown out and are back home now. Just myself and the Nepal Sherpa team and the Pakastani team are here in Skardu. We arrived last night from the trek out from base camp to Skardu. It took us four days.
Today we did some gear organizing, and some sight-seeing around Skardu. We are hoping tomorrow that we have good weather to fly to Islamabad. All’s well here in Skardu. Nice weather and we are looking forward to getting back to Islamabad and on our way home.
It’s been a wonderful expedition here. We had 100% summit success with 21 summits of K2 on our team in total and everyone made it down safely and is on their way home healthy, which is the most important.
So, we had a wonderful expedition. Thanks for following along. Looking forward to our next expeditions out there on the horizon.
Starry skies above K2
The day we set off from base camp for the K2 summit push. Serious faces..
A very happy 3-time K2 summiteer at base camp
After getting down from the successful K2 summit rotation, happy face!
Garrett with Sherpa and Pakistani crew departing K2 base camp
Cutting the celebratory K2 cake in Skardu
Post-K2 celebration in Skardu
If climbing K2 or Broad Peak is in your future, please contact our office, we would love to have you climb with us!
In addition to these expedition dispatches, you can also follow our teams as they make their attempts on the world’s most formidable mountains on:
– Amazon Alexa devices with the Madison Mountaineering Flash Briefing skill:
- Enable the skill and add to your flash briefing to hear Garrett Madison’s daily audio expedition updates on select expeditions. Just say, “Alexa, play my Madison Mountaineering flash briefing.“
– Instagram:
– our Garmin inReach Mini powered real-time tracking map:
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