After arrival in Nairobi last night, our Mount Kenya private expedition with Chase and expedition leader, Garrett Madison, kicked off this morning with a drive to the Meru Bandas trailhead on the Chogoria route. Here’s Garrett’s audio dispatch: Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the Mount Kenya expedition. Today is Saturday, January 16th and […]
With the Chimborazo summit success yesterday, our very successful Ecuador 16-day expedition concluded today and everyone is headed home safe. Expedition leader, Garrett Madison, provides this final dispatch: Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the Ecuador Volcanoes program. Yesterday we summited Chimborazo, the highest volcano, highest peak in Ecuador, and closest point to the […]
Congratulations are in order to our Ecuador team as they made a fantastic ascent of Cotopaxi. Here’s expedition leader Garrett Madison‘s recap of the day and what’s next: Hello! This is Garrett calling in for the Madison Mountaineering Ecuador Volcanoes program. Today’s January 6th and we were fortunate and lucky to have climbed Cotopaxi today, […]
Congratulations Ecuador team on yesterday’s summit of Cayambe (5790m/18,996ft)! Expedition leader, Garrett Madison, called in this expedition dispatch with the details of the climb: Hello! This is Garrett calling in for the Ecuador Volcanoes team in Quito, Ecuador. We just climbed Mount Cayambe yesterday – over 19,000 ft. It was a snowy day. We were […]
One last day of acclimatization hiking around Otavalo before the team heads to Cayambe tomorrow. Garrett provides the details of today’s hike up the Imbabura volcano: Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the Ecuador Volcanoes program. Today we hiked up the volcano Imbabura – 15,000 ft.! It was a beautiful hike up this inactive stratovolcano in […]
Our Ecuador team continued their acclimatization today with a hike around Laguna Cuicocha just west of Otavalo. Expedition leader, Garrett Madison, has today’s dispatch: Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the Ecuador Volcanoes program. Today we hiked around Lake Cuicocha and it was nice weather, we got to see the lake and some nice […]
Our Ecuador team has jumped right into their acclimatization after just arriving in Quito last night. Garrett Madison provides a recap of the day: Hello! This is Garrett calling in the Ecuador Volcanoes climb program. Today we left Quito in the morning and drove to our first acclimatization hike, Fuya Fuya, and we hiked up […]
Today we kick off our final expedition of 2020 in the capital city of Quito, Ecuador. Expedition leader, Garrett Madison, provides this initial Ecuador Volcanoes expedition dispatch. We hope you will follow along. Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the Ecuador Volcanoes program. Today we are meeting in Quito, Ecuador. I’ve just arrived and […]
The team reached the summit of Ojos del Salado this morning, the highest volcano in the world (#1 in the Volcanic Seven Summits), the second-highest mountain in South America (#2 in the Second Seven Summits), and Chile’s country high point (6893m/22,614ft)! Congratulations team! Great work. Here’s expedition leader, Garrett Madison with the happy news direct […]
Today the Ojos del Salado team made the 105 mile (170km) drive along Maricunga salt flat then continuing across the high plateaus to reach Laguna Verde where they will camp for three days near a hot spring. Next up is an acclimatization climb of Nevado San Francisco (6016m/19,738 ft)! In addition to these expedition dispatches, […]