Reporting from High Camp on Mount Vinson, expedition leader Garrett Madison provides this update: Hi, this is Garrett calling for the Madison Mountaineering Mount Vinson expedition. Today on New Year’s Day, our team the Adventure Guides and Madison Mountaineering team made the summit of Mount Vinson (4892 m / 16,050 ft) [garbled]. We had a beautiful day with perfect […]
Happy New Year!!! Via sat phone, Garrett Madison reports in on the progress of team one’s climb to the highest peak at Antarctica: Hey! This is Garrett calling in for the Madison Mountaineering Mount Vinson expedition in Antarctica. Today is December 31st and we climbed up to High Camp (3536 m / 11,600 ft) today and […]
Expedition leader Garrett Madison phoned in this dispatch via satellite: Hello! This is Garrett calling in for the Madison Mountaineering Mount Vinson expedition! Today we climbed up to camp 1, “Low Camp”, from base camp. We settled in here a few hours ago. We had a nice dinner, some hot drinks and now we are […]
From the base on Mount Vinson, expedition leader Garrett Madison provides this update via satellite phone: Hello! This is Garrett calling in for the Madison Mountaineering / Adventure Guides Vinson Expedition. Today is Friday, December 28th. We are at base camp. We had a carry today. We went up half way to camp 1 and […]
Lead guide Garrett Madison called in via sat phone with the following update: Hi!! This is Garrett calling in for the Mount Vinson expedition. We are at Vinson base camp! We were able to fly from Union Glacier camp this evening around 6:30 PM. We got to Vinson base camp around 7:30 PM. We’ve set […]
Garrett and team are striking their happy poses because our first of three Vinson expeditions was rewarded for their patience with the best Christmas present ever: a GO! for the flight from Punta Arenas, Chile to Union Glacier, Antarctica. After eight days waiting for the weather at Union Glacier, the team is now headed to […]
Our first Mount Vinson expedition team is standing by in Punta Arenas, Chile, waiting for good weather to fly to Antarctica. Currently, the winds on the Blue Ice Runway at Union Glacier camp are too strong for a safe landing. So we have to wait until conditions improve before we can take off. The climbers […]
This week we are kicking-off the first of our three expeditions to Antarctica, the ‘Frozen Continent’, this season! We are excited to be leading climbers on their quest for Mount Vinson, the highest peak in Antarctica, at just over 4850m / 16,000 ft. and one of the ‘Seven Summits‘! Follow us as we begin our […]
Our expedition has concluded, with all of our climbers making a first ascent to the summit of the previously unclimbed Nupla Khang, a 6,861 meter / 22,641 ft. virgin peak deep in the Himalayas on the border of Nepal and Tibet, near Mount Everest. Alpine Start We awoke in Advanced Base Camp (5,848 meters / […]
Yesterday afternoon we arrived in our base camp nestled alongside the 5th of the Gokyo Lakes. We are the only people around. It’s a beautiful camp and from here we can gaze upon Everest, Lhotse, Cho Oyu, and many other high peaks. Today we had our Puja ceremony, where we ask the mountain for safe […]