Great news! Garrett and the entire team made the summit of Mount Vinson today. Way to go team! Special congratulations to Jen for completing her Seven Summits quest!! Here’s Garrett via sat phone just minutes are from Mount Vinson High Camp with the details: Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the Madison Mountaineering Mount […]
Team member John provides today’s expedition update from Mount Vinson High Camp. Spoiler-alert: tomorrow they will make a summit attempt! Hello, everybody. This is John checking in from Vinson High Camp on behalf of my fellow teammate Jen and expedition leader Garrett Madison. Today we enjoyed a very relaxing rest day advance of our summit […]
Merry Christmas from our team at Mount Vinson Low Camp (2774m/9,100ft)! Here’s Garrett with holiday wishes and the climbing game plan: Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the Madison Mountaineering Mount Vinson expedition team. Today is Christmas Day. Merry Christmas! We are at Low Camp on Mount Vinson, and our plan is to head […]
Today our Mount Vinson team one moved into their Christmas location of Low Camp on Mount Vinson. Meanwhile, in Punta Arenas, Chile, our Mount Vinson team two arrived and will spend the next few days preparing for their flight to Union Glacier, Antarctica. Here’s Garrett via sat phone with the recap of the day on […]
Our first Mount Vinson team of the season has flown from Union Glacier Camp to Mount Vinson Base Camp and made their carry towards Low Camp. Expedition leader Garrett Madison provides the day’s dispatch via satellite phone: Hello. This is Garrett calling for the Mount Vinson expedition team. Today is Wednesday, December 22nd and we […]
Our first Mount Vinson expedition team is waiting out the Mount Vinson base camp weather at Union Glacier camp. Here’s Garrett with the details: Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the Madison Mountaineering Mount Vinson expedition team. Today is Monday December 20th and we are still at Union Glacier camp. No one is flying […]
The team for our first Mount Vinson expedition of the season has arrived at Union Glacier camp in Antarctica and is getting things ready for the flight to Mount Vinson base camp. Here’s Garrett with the details: Hello. This is Garrett calling in for the Madison Mountaineering Mount Vinson expedition. This is the first expedition […]
Our first Mount Vinson expedition of the season is just boarding their flight to Antarctica from Punta Arenas, Chile. Here’s expedition leader Garrett Madison with the details: Hey! This is Garrett calling in for the Madison Mountaineering Vinson expedition – our first one of the season. We are flight to Antarctica! We just getting ready […]
Our Mount Vinson season has kicked off with our first wave of climbers arriving in the historic jump-off city of Punta Arenas, Chile – the largest city south of 46 degrees south. Here’s expedition leader Garrett Madison with today’s expedition dispatch: Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the Madison Mountaineering Mount Vinson expedition season. […]
With 100% summit success, the team is back in base camp celebrating, and getting ready to head back to Kathmandu. Garrett provides the recap and a ton of awesome photos of their summit day: Hello, this is Garrett caling in for the Madison Mountaineering Ama Dablam expedition team here in Nepal. Today’s November 9th and […]