456 pounds of waste collected so far!
The Madison Mountaineering team that’s positioned in advanced base camp at the foot of K2 continued their acclimatization efforts today, combined with more cleanup in and around camp. An additional 62 kilos of trash will be properly removed from the mountain, bringing the teams total to 207kg / 456lbs altogether! With some more cleanup planned in the days ahead, the team will also start to look for their window to move up the mountains, K2 and Broad Peak both. Expedition leader, Terray Sylvester checks in with this dispatch from K2:
Hello again from K2 Advanced Base Camp (5303m/17,400ft)! This morning we cleaned up 62 kilos of trash from here at ABC and the base of the Abruzzi Spur, where debris that falls from Camps 1 (6065m/19,900ft) and 2 (6700m/21,980ft) often lands. As with our previous high elevation cleanups, we picked up old tents, clothing items, food packaging, pieces of oxygen systems, and many cooking gas canisters. We were also surprised to find a GoPro 10. This was our third cleanup session, and our staff and climbers did a great job. All told, we’ve now picked up 207kg / 456lbs of waste from here at K2 (8611m/28,251ft). We’re planning at least one more cleanup push before we launch our summit bids on K2 and Broad Peak (8051m/26,414ft). We’ll be in touch tomorrow!
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 our daily audio expedition updates on select expeditions. Just say, “Alexa, play my flash briefing.“
– Instagram:
Hi,
Good on the entire team for clean up efforts.
The best,
Michael Boyer
I like the integrity of the Madison team in picking up debris that you didn’t leave yourself. And appreciate the no trace left concept that you embrace. Someday all those debris pictures from the mountains will be history! Wishing you much success in your climbing! Can’t wait to see the photos of the beautiful vistas. However far up the mountain they come from!! It’s sunny and 93° down here in Georgia USA!
Very proud of Terray Sylvester for supervising & directing on location at K2, Ryan Mitchell in spearheading and fundraising for this specific clean up project, and our Nepal Sherpa and Pakistani teams for their hard work collecting and removing the waste! Great job team!!