Normally, at this time, our Everest climbing team would have just finished two nights at Namche Bazaar and trekked on to the village of Deboche where they would be spending the evening with our friends at the Rivendell Lodge and looking forward to six more days on the trail towards Everest Base Camp. But as you know, […]
Late last week amid all of the rapidly evolving global cancelations and shutdowns to slow the spread of the coronavirus, the government of Nepal officially announced the cancellation of all Spring expeditions along with additional changes to their tourist visa requirements. While we are saddened that all of the hard work and preparations of our […]
Welcome to Everest 2020! Our annual spring Mount Everest expedition begins in just 30 days. Our strong team of international climbers will gather at the Hotel Yak and Yeti, our Kathmandu home-base and the launching point of countless Mount Everest expeditions over the years. Here in Seattle, we are now gathering expedition equipment, food and […]
Our team of climbers, cameramen and Argentina support staff after our climb and celebratory ‘asado’ (barbecue) in base camp. We had a wonderful expedition on Aconcagua, everyone is safely off the mountain, and now beginning the trek out from base camp. We are looking forward to arriving in Mendoza tonight and enjoying some warm weather! […]
With all of the Aconcagua team safely down to base camp, expedition leader, Garrett Madison, provides today’s expedition dispatch: Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the Aconcagua team. We are all back down in Plaza de Mulas base camp – 14,000 ft. on the normal route of Aconcagua. We had a great time on […]
With drama and suspense worthy of a TV show, expedition leader Garrett Madison provides a recap of summit day on Aconcagua: Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the Aconcagua team. Today we went for our summit push and we had good weather, but we’re not going to tell what happened because we want you […]
Hi, this is Garrett calling in for the Aconcagua team. We’re up at high camp, Camp 3 on the normal route – Cholera Camp (5945m/19,504ft). And everyone’s doing really well. The weather seems to be improving so we are looking forward to potentially a nice summit day. But there’s only one way to find out. […]
The plan is to move up to Camp 3 tomorrow after waiting out the winds hitting the upper mountain. Here’s expedition leader, Garrett Madison, with the details: Hello! This is Garrett calling in for the Aconcagua team up here at Camp 2 on the normal route – Nido de Cóndores. We took another rest day […]
Expedition leader, Garrett Madison, reports in from Camp 2 on Aconcagua: Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the Aconcagua team. We’re up here at Camp 2. We had a great rest day in Nido de Condores camp. Nice day – not too windy and not as warm as yesterday but still not too cold. […]
The Aconcagua team made a carry up to Camp 3 – Cholera Camp (5974m/19,600ft.) today and are back at Camp 2. Expedition leader, Garrett Madison, phoned in today’s dispatch via satellite phone: Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the Aconcagua team. We are at Camp 2 on Aconcagua. We had a great day today. […]