A toast to a safe, successful climb
With the Everest season quickly wrapping up, here’s expedition leader, Garrett Madison, with a final dispatch from the 2019 Mount Everest base camp:
Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the Everest team. Today most of our crew helicoptered down to Kathmandu and they are at the Yak & Yeti hotel, relaxing and enjoying a nice comfortable stay and a great dinner. Myself, Conan and Stuart along with Joyce are still here in base camp with our Sherpa team – just packing up the camp and we are hoping to head out tomorrow down to Kathmandu.
But, it’s been a great season for us. We have a very high success and safely all around with our team. It was a challenging season, very windy on the mountain and cold this year with a narrow summit window. And unfortunetly, there was a notable loss of life with climbers the last week on the mountain. But we are happy to be down safe and looking forward to heading home soon. All’s well here at base camp. Thanks for following along!
Descending down from C2 with the Sun about to rise over Everest
Walking down the Western Cwm between C2 and C1
Climbers descending the icefall
A toast to a safe climb at our base camp with the Khumbu Icefall behind
Phew, and thanks for the ride!
Thank you so much for bringing your journey to us. I am so glad you are all safe and heading home. I have enjoyed your posts everyday. Blessings to all