Our December expedition to climb South America’s highest peak, Aconcagua has kicked off with the team arriving Mendoza, Argentina. After enjoying the comforts of the beautiful Diplomatic Hotel and the excellent food of Mendoza, they loaded all their gear into the truck for the ride out of the base of the mountain located in Los […]
We are excited to once again be heading off to Antarctica to climb the southernmost of the Seven Summits, Mount Vinson. The first of our two expeditions this season heads out on December 18th. Stay tuned here for daily updates once we get underway. By the way, it’s not too early to start making your […]
Expedition leader, Conan Bliss, and the team have returned to Ama Dablam base camp and Conan provides the happy news: Ama Dablam Expedition Summary: At 7:40 am on November 4th, the Madison Mountaineering team stood alone on the summit of Ama Dablam. The sky was cloudless, offering amazing 360-degree views including Everest, Lhotse, and Makalu. […]
Conan Bliss, expedition leader, checked-in today with an update on the Ama Dablam expedition: The Ama Dablam team arrived back at BC after a successful acclimatization rotation. We stayed 2 nights at C1 and made a climb up to C2, ascending the famous Yellow Tower yesterday. Tomorrow we’ll have a rest day then plan our […]
Expedition leader, Conan Bliss, checks in with today’s update: The Ama Dablam team is enjoying another training session this morning at BC. We’ll relax this afternoon and get packed for our two-night acclimatization rotation starting tomorrow (29th/30th). We’ll stay both nights at C1 and plan to climb to touch C2 on the 30th. We’ll check […]
Expedition leader, Conan Bliss, checks in with today’s update on the Ama Dablam expedition: The Ama Dablam team arrived at BC yesterday (October 25 – local). It was a snowy evening but clouds are breaking today. We had a fun and productive morning doing rope training. Tomorrow we’re planning an acclimatization hike to Yak Camp […]
Our autumn Ama Dablam expedition kicked off earlier this week and the team has been trekking their way up to base camp from the mountain airport village of Lukla (2860m / 9,380ft.). The first stop was the village of Monjo where they entered the Sagarmatha National Park. and from there up to Namche Bazaar where […]
Nice end-of-season climb on Washington state’s Mt. Olympus last week. Lead guide, Terray Sylvester, provided this report: We made the most of challenging conditions last week on Mount Olympus’ Blue Glacier Route. The trail to the route follows the milky Hoh River through the massive trees of the Hoh Rainforest for about 17 miles to […]
Today the team reached Everest Base Camp (5280m/17,323ft.) around 09:43 AM UTC (2:43 AM PDT or 3:28 PM Nepal local time)! Communications are still being set up but expedition leader, Garrett Madison, was able to provide this brief update via our Garmin inReach Mini: Just arrived in EBC…the crew is psyched to be here…although it’s […]
Guide Jayar Storms provided this trip report on our recent 1:1 skill building and training outing to the Boston Basin area of the North Cascades National Park: We began our trip early Tuesday (9/3) morning on the Boston Basin climbers trail. By that afternoon, we had reached Boston Basin and set up camp. We had […]