With the season over, the base camp departures begin. But if you are still in base camp, you might as well enjoy yourself! Garrett provides these details: Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the K2 climbing expedition. Today is July 21st and we’re down in base camp. A few of our members helicoptered to […]
The whole team is down off the mountain and all safely in base camp and will be heading home soon. Stay tuned over the next few days for Garrett’s complete expedition recap as the team makes their way back to Islamabad and beyond. Here’s Garrett with today’s expedition dispatch: Hello, this is Garrett calling in […]
The season’s snowfall on the upper slopes of K2 has won out, and unfortunately, the summit will have to wait for another year. Today the team made the prudent decision to abort the summit push. While one team member and his climbing Sherpa partner ascended to Camp 4 to spend the night, the remainder of […]
The team made the move up to K2 Cesen Camp 3 today under beautiful conditions. Expedition leader, Garrett Madison, has this update: Hello! This is Garrett calling in for the K2 climbing team. Today we climbed from Camp 2 (6311m) on the Cesen route up to Camp 3 (7013m). Everyone did good today. We had […]
After yesterday’s big initial push up from base camp, the K2 team has been resting up at Camp 2 today and will move up to Camp 3 tomorrow. Garrett fills us in on the details: Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the K2 climbing team. Today is July 17th, and we decided to take […]
In a big kick-off push, the K2 team climbed from base camp (4990m) to Camp 2 (6325m) on the Česen route today. A steady, steep climb of over 9 hours positioned them very well for moving to Camp 3 (~7000m) tomorrow. Expedition leader, Garrett Madison, has this update: Hello, this is Garrett calling in for […]
In today’s update, Garrett outlines the upcoming summit attempt plan: Hello, this is Garrett calling for the K2 climbing expedition team. Today is July 13th, and we had a nice rest day in base camp. All of our Sherpas have come down off the mountain from carrying loads and fixing ropes to Camp 4 on […]
With all of the team now back in base camp after successful completion of their acclimatization rotation, everyone is watching the weather and looking for that window for a summit attempt. Garrett checks in with today’s update: Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the K2 expedition team. Today is July 12th, and we had […]
The main group of climbers took a rest day at base camp and are getting psyched for summit push coming up soon. Garrett provides the details: Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the K2 climbing expedtion team. Today is July 11th and we had a rest day today in base camp. Everyone’s doing well […]
Most of the team descended from Camp 2 on the Cesen route today and are back in BC, completing their acclimatization rotation. Here’s Garrett with the details: Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the K2 expedition climbing team. Today we came down from K2 Camp 2 on the Cesen route to base camp. Had […]