The weather looks good and our K2 team will begin their summit push tomorrow morning! Expedition Leader, Garrett Madison has called in with this expedition dispatch: Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the Madison Mountaineering K2 and Broad Peak expedition team. Today’s July 23rd and we are about to head up on our summit […]
Our K2/Broad Peak team is still waiting out the weather at K2 base camp. Here’s Garrett with the latest status update: Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the Madison Mountaineering K2 and Broad Peak expedition team. Today’s July 22nd and we’ve had another easy, restful day here in base camp. The stormy weather seems […]
With some great weather during their rest period, the team enjoyed some BBQ in K2 base camp. Here is expedition leader Garrett Madison with today’s expedition dispatch: Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the Madison Mountaineering K2 and Broad Peak expedition team. Today is July 18th and we’ve add a restful few days in […]
The K2 team is enjoying some good weather for resting in base camp and looking forward to making their summit attempt plans after the next storm system passes through. Here’s expedition leader Garrett Madison with all the details: Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the Madison Mountaineering K2 and Broad Peak expedition team. We […]
Great video interview of Garrett Madison by the nexus of all high-altitude climbing news, Alan Arnette. Garrett Madison, founder of Madison Mountaineering is one of the few people on the planet to have summited K2 twice. He’s hoping to get his third this 2021 summer. This is his sixth expedition to K2 making him the […]
The K2 team has completed the first acclimatization rotation up the mountain to Camp 2 and Garrett Madison, expedition leader, provides all the details in today’s expedition dispatch from K2 base camp: Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the Madison Mountaineering K2 and Broad Peak expedition. Today is July 13 and yesterday we got […]
Satellite comms are up again and Garrett and team check-in for K2’s Camp 2 on the Abruzzi Ridge with today’s dispatch: Hello! This is Garrett calling in for the Madison Mountaineering K2 and Broad Peak expedition team. Today is July 10th, and today we climbed from Camp 1 up to Camp 2 on the Abruzzi […]
We got a very garbled sat phone message from Garrett at K2 base camp today – audio below. Garrett later added the following via inReach text messaging: We had our puja ceremony today, it was a wonderful way to begin our climbing. We will head up to ABC on our 1st rotation tomorrow and plan […]
Our K2 and Broad Peak team sends their happy 4th of July from K2 base camp. Expedition leader, Garrett Madison, checks in: Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the Madison Mountaineering K2 and Broad Peak expedition team. Today is July 4th. Happy American Indepdence Day – 4th of July – to all you Americans […]
The 2021 K2 and Broad Peak expedition arrived at base camp today and Madison Mountaineering guide, Rob Smith, provides a recap of the final days of trekking to reach base camp: Hi folks, this is Rob checking in for the 2021 Madison Mountaineering K2 and Broad Peak expedition. So yesterday we left Goro 2 camp […]