Expedition leader, Garrett Madison, and the climbing team headed down to Gorak Shep for lunch today under the continuing snowy conditions. Here’s Garrett’s update: Hello! This is Garrett calling in for Madison Mountaineering Autumn Everest Expedition. Today is September 29th. Another snowy, cloudy day in base camp. Woke up to a few inches of […]
On a snowy day at Everest Base Camp, expedition leader, Garrett Madison, has this daily report: Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the Madison Mountaineering Autumn Everest Expedition. Today is September 28th and we had a rest day in base camp as it snowed outside all day and fairly cloudy. We were very […]
Expedition leader, Garrett Madison, recaps tonight’s dinner at the neighboring Polish team camp and an update on the serac looming over the Khumbu Icefall: Hello! This is Garrett calling in for the Madison Mountaineering Autumn Everest Expedition. Today we had dinner with our Polish friends over in their camp, which was a nice contrast […]
The Everest team at EBC is keeping themselves busy during the day with hikes and at night with dinner parties! Garrett Madison, expedition leader, provides the details: Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the Madison Mountaineering Autumn Mount Everest Expedition. Today is September 27th and today myself and Kristin went for a hike up […]
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 […]