Congratulations to our Everest 2019 spring team in successfully climbing the world’s highest peak, but more importantly making it down safely! In contrast to what the media has portrayed, our experience on summit day was a pleasant one, due to a strong and experienced team. Our guides and Sherpas not only installed the fixed lines […]
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 […]
The Everest team has safely descended down the Lhotse face from the South Col to advanced base camp (ABC), Camp 2. Here’s Garrett with the sat phone dispatch from 6500m Camp 2: Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the Everest climbing team. Today is May 24th. We all made it down to Camp 2, […]
Congratulations to our Everest team for reaching the top of the world! All of the team is now safely back at Camp 4 on the South Col. Expedition leader, Garrett Madison, provides the happy news: Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the Everest team. Today is May 23rd and today we summitted Mount Everest! […]
This is it. Because, tonight’s the night the past seven weeks in Nepal and preceding months of planning, preparing, and training have been building up to. We go for the summit of Everest tonight!!! It’s now morning in Nepal and the team will be spending the day resting and getting psyched for the final push […]
Just received a sat phone call from Garrett. The team is tucked in at Camp 4 on the South Col of Everest. Everyone did really well today on the climb up from Camp 3. They may take a rest day and then go for the summit on the 23rd. The sat phone call is very […]
Our Everest team made the move up to Camp 3 on the Lhotse face today and looks to be in position for a summit attempt on May 22nd. The weather is looking good and the team is feeling strong and healthy. Garrett Madison, expedition leader, provides this update: Helllo, this is Garrett calling in for […]
The Everest team is heading to Camp 3 tomorrow to start the summit attempt. The weather forecast is looking favorable. Here’s expedition leader, Garrett Madison’s, update via sat phone: Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the Everest team. Today is Sunday, May 19th and we had a nice rest day at Camp 2 as […]
Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the Everest team. We are up at Camp 2 right now and everybody’s doing well. We are taking a rest day and watching the weather. We are also watching some teams come down off the Lhotse face after their summit attempts. But the main thing is that we […]
Now on their summit rotation, the team climbed from base camp (5307m/17,411ft) to Camp 2 (6500m/21,325ft) today. Expedition leader, Garrett Madison, provides today’s update via satellite phone from Camp 2: Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the Everest climbing team. Today is May 17th, and we awoke at about 1:00 AM and left at […]