Today the Vinson team bided their time at High Camp waiting for the weather to clear. Conrad Anker provides a recap of the day and the plan for tomorrow in this sat phone dispatch: Greetings folks, this is Conrad Anker from Vinson High Camp. It’s the 7th of January, 2020. Well, the weather gods, […]
We encourage you to listen to the audio of Conrad Anker’s entertaining sat phone dispatch about today’s activities high on Antarctica’s Mount Vinson: Greetings folks, it’s the 6th of January 2020 and this is your intrepid journalist/mountaineering Conrad Anker calling from Vinson High Camp. Well, if you listened to yesterday’s dispatch, you kinda got […]
Today the Vinson team made a go at it. Conrad Anker provides all the details in his sat phone call from High Camp this evening: Greetings folks, this is Conrad with an update from the Vinson expedition 2020. Well, it’s the 5th of January. We’re here at High Camp. We didn’t summit. What gives? […]
Co-guide, Conrad Anker, reports in from Mount Vinson that it’s another windy day at High Camp. The team is hunkering down and waiting for a break in the weather for the summit attempt: Greetings folks! Conrad here from VInson High Camp. It’s the 4th of January 2020. And guess what? It’s our second full day […]
Today the Vinson team took a windy rest day at High Camp. Expedition leader, Garrett Madison, provides the details via satellite phone: Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the Madison Mountaineering Mount Vinson expedition team #2 with co-guide Conrad Anker. We are up at High Camp taking a rest day today. It’s become […]
After a long day of making the move (+2,500 ft) from Mount Vinson Low Camp up the fixed lines to High Camp, guest guide Conrad Anker, phones in via satellite today’s expedition recap: Greetings folks, this is Conrad from Vinson High Camp. It’s the 2nd of January 2020. What a great way to welcome in […]
Today our Vinson team conducted some training and skills review near Low Camp, making ready for a possible move up to High Camp tomorrow. Expedition leader, Garrett Madison, phoned in today’s dispatch: Hello. This is Garrett calling in for the Mount Vinson expedition team #2 with Garrett and Conrad Anker. Today is January 1, 2020. […]
Make sure and listen to our Vinson team #2 ringing in the new year from Low Camp on Mount Vinson, Antarctica’s highest peak: Hey, this is Garrett calling in for the Vinson expedition. We are up here at Low Camp. Everyone did great today. We got into Low Camp, set up our camp, and we’re […]
Conrad Anker provides a recap of today in around Vinson base camp. Happy birthday Andrew from all of us at Madison Mountaineering! Greetings folks from the Branscomb Glacier here at the base of Mount Vinson! We had a great day on the 30th of December – Andrew celebrated his birthday. So we made him […]
After a quick turn at Union Glacier camp, the team flew over to Mount Vinson base camp and got settled in. Here’s expedition leader Garrett Madison‘s day-end recap via sat phone: Hello! This is Garrett calling in for the Mount Vinson expedition with Conrad Anker. Today’s Sunday, December 29th and we made it to Vinson […]