With another cloudy and snowy day at base camp, expedition leader Garrett Madison and the Everest climbing team took a hike up to nearby Pumori base camp: Hello! This is Garrett calling in for the Madison Mountaineering Autumn Everest Expedition here at Everest base camp. Today is September 25th. Myself, Kristin, and Zac had […]
Relaxing at base camp, Garrett Madison, Autumn Everest expedition leader, provides the recap of the day: Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the Madison Mountaineering Autumn Everest Expedition. Today is September 24th, and we had a very relaxing restful day in base camp. It snowed off and on most of the day and was […]
Autumn Everest expedition leader, Garrett Madison, called in from base camp with today’s dispatch: Hello, this is Garrett calling in the for Madison Mountaineering Everest Expedition Autumn season. Today is September 23rd. Today our climbers, Joe and Tim, flew out from base camp to Kathmandu as the Mountain Hardwear team has concluded their Everest […]
Autumn Everest expedition leader, Garrett Madison, provides this update on the new data regarding the Khumbu Icefall route and subsequent decisions made: Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the Madison Mountaineering / Mountain Hardwear Autumn Everest Expedition. Today is September 22nd. To recap yesterday: we had a great day, our sherpa team reached Camp […]
Autumn Everest expedition leader, Garrett Madison, report on the exciting progress today: Hello! This is Garrett calling in for the Mountain Hardwear Autumn Everest Expedition with Madison Mountaineering. Today is September 21st and we had a GREAT day! Exciting news: our sherpa team was able to find the route through the icefall and reached […]
Here’s Mountain Hardwear Athlete Tim Emmett with today’s Everest expedition update: Hello, this is the Mountain Hardwear / Madison Mountaineering Everest Expedition dispatch. We are at base camp right now and we’ve been up to the icefall today with some of the crew to see how’s that’s going. Beautiful weather today, it was the first […]
Today, Mountain Hardwear CEO, Joe Vernachio, provide a recap of yesterday’s activities around base camp the plan for today: Hi, this is Joe Vernachio for the Mountain Hardwear Everest Expedition with Madison Mountaineering. We had an active rest day yesterday where we walked up into the Khumbu Icefall. It was a very cloudy, snowy day. […]
From Everest Base Camp, expedition leader Garrett Madison provides an update on today’s exciting progress! Hi! This is Garrett calling in for the Madison Mountaineering / Mountain Hardwear Autumn Everest Expedition. Today is September 18th and we had a great day. Myself and Tim Emmett went up into the Khumbu Icefall with our whole team […]
Low visibility delayed plans to investigate the current impasse along the route through the Khumbu Icefall. Garrett Madison, expedition leader, has today’s expedition dispatch: Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the Mountain Hardwear Autumn Everest Exedition with Madison Mountaineering. Today is September 17th and we’re in base camp! Today our trekkers are heading down […]
After reaching Everest Base Camp yesterday, the team held their Puja ceremony today in which a Buddist Lama led the team in prayers for safe passage on the mountain. Garrett Madison, expedition leader, has this update: Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the Madison Mountaineering / Mountain Hardwear Everest Expedition. Today is September 16th. […]