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 […]
A quick inReach text message while on a break from Garrett: Just back at camp 3 after the summit, everyone made it! 100% success for all climbers who went up from base camp. Now we will descend carefully. Congratulations team! Be safe on the descent. More details soon… In addition to these expedition dispatches, you […]
Our Ama Dablam team has set the plan to head for the summit tonight! Here expedition leader Garrett Madison with the team dispatch from 6000m at Camp 2: Hello! This is Garrett calling in from Camp 2 on Ama Dablam. I’m in the tent here with Jon and J.B. Tonight is our summit night. Next […]
The summit push is on and the team headed up from base camp to Camp 1 (5792m/19,000ft) today. Garrett Madison provides today’s expedition dispatch via a somewhat garbled and truncated sat phone call: Hello, this is Garrett Madison calling in for the Ama Dablam expedition team. Today is November 6th and today we left base […]
While our Ama Dablam team is waiting for the coming weather window to go for the summit, they celebrated expedition leader Garrett Madison‘s birthday at base camp: Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the Ama Dablam expedition team. Today is November 4th and we are in base camp. We’ve been taking a few extra […]
Our Ama Dablam team is enjoying their second rest day at base camp after the first rotation. Here’s Garrett with the update: Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the Madison Mountaineering Ama Dablam expedition team. Today is November 2nd, we’re at Ama Dablam base camp, and this is our second rest day after our […]
Our Ama Dablam team is back in base camp after completing their 1st acclimatization rotation. Garrett Madison, expedition leader, calls in today’s update: Hello! This is Garrett calling in for the Madison Mountaineering Ama Dablam expedition team. Today’s October 31st, Halloween and we are back in base camp! We had a couple of good nights, […]
The 1st acclimatization rotation on Ama Dablam continues with the team touching Camp 2 (5980m/19,619ft) and returning to Camp 1 (5791m/19,000ft) for the night. Team member J.B. Waterman provides today’s expedition dispatch: This is J.B. Waterman on Madison Mountaineering’s Ama Dablam team. Today was an epic training day – from Camp 1 at 19,000ft to […]
Today our Ama Dablam kicked off their 1st acclimatization rotation by hiking and climbing up from base camp to Camp 1. Team member J.B. Waterman provides today’s expedition dispatch: Hello, this is Madison Mountaineering Ama Dablam 2021 team member J.B. Waterman. It’s Friday, October 29th and me and the rest of the team are ensconced […]