Here is expedition leader, Garrett Madison, with today’s report on the trekking progress towards Everest Base Camp: Helllo, this is Garrett calling in for the Mountain Hardwear Mount Everest Expedition. Today is September 11th we had a great trek today from Namche down the hillside and across the river, up to the Tengboche Monastery, and […]
Today the Everest team continued their acclimatizing around Namche and up to Khumjung. Garrett Madison, expedition leader, provides a recap of the day: Helllo, this is Garrett calling in for the Mountain Hardwear Mount Everest Expedition. Today is September 10th and we had a great day trekking around Namche. We went up to the Everest […]
Expedition leader, Garrett Madison, provides a recap of today’s rest day at Namche: Hello! This is Garrett calling in for the Mountain Hardwear Mount Everest Expediton autumn season. Today we had a rest day in Namche and went for a hike up to the Mount Everest museum above town and had great views of Mount […]
Trekking day 2: Phakding to Namche Bazaar – Distance: 9.56km – Elev Gain/Loss: 1430m/-624m Today the trekking team hiked up the hill to the village of Nachme Bazaar where they will spend a couple of days acclimatizing. Expedition leader, Garrett Madison, made this expedition dispatch: Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the Mountain Hardwear […]
Trekking day 1: Lukla to Phakding – Distance: 8.30 km – Elev Gain/Loss: 394m/-639m Expedition leader, Garrett Madison, provides the recap of today’s exciting flight to the trailhead mountain village of Lukla and the first day of trekking towards Everest Base Camp: Hello! This is Garrett calling in for the Mountain Hardwear Everest expedition and […]
All of us at Madison Mountaineering are very excited that after many months of planning, the Mountain Hardwear Everest Expedition kicks-off today! Expedition leader, Garrett Madison, is now in Kathmandu with the entire trekking team and just provided this update to start off this exciting and rare Autumn season attempt on Mount Everest: Hello, this […]
Our K2 expedition team just arrived back in Islamabad, after the 100 km trek out from base camp to Askoli, 7-hour jeep ride from Askoli to Skardu, and a 34-hour epic drive from Skardu to Islamabad. All members of the team (climbers, Sherpas, Pakistan staff) are safely on their way home now. (members Valerio, Gina, […]
The K2 trekking is complete. The team had a marathon day by finishing the trek and then 4-wheeling for seven hours (!) to Skardu. Here’s expedition leader Garrett Madison’s update: Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the K2 expedition team. Today is July 26th and we finished our trek out from K2 base camp […]
Today the K2 team trekked to Jhola camp and now has just one more day of trekking left. Expedition leader, Garrett Madison, talks about the long day: Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the K2 expedition team. Today is July 25 and we have arrived at Jhola camp (3151m/10,338ft) on the trek out back […]
As the K2 team continues to trek out, Garrett checks in from Khoburtse camp on the Baltoro: Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the K2 expedition. Today is July 24th and we trekked down the Baltoro Glacier from Goro 2 (4285m/14,058ft) to Khoburtse camp (3827m/12,556ft). We had a nice day. It was beautiful weather, […]