Success on Kilimanjaro!
We are happy to report our success this week on Kilimanjaro and share a few pics from the expedition.
Entries by Kurt
K2 TV News Coverage: Seattle KOMO-TV
Transcript: New tonight a local man has done what fewer than 20 Americans ever have. He summited the second tallest mountain in the world, K2. Garrett Madison is a Bainbridge Island native and president of Madison Mountaineering. Yesterday he and two other Americans became the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth climbers from the U.S. to stand […]
Team Leaving K2 Base Camp
We just spoke with Garrett Madison from K2 base camp. Communications are still limited and photos will be posted soon. The team spent yesterday at base camp recovering from the climb and packing and organizing their gear for the 60 mile trek out to Askole. Today they start the multi-day journey down the Godwin-Austen and […]
Back at K2 Base Camp
The K2 team has just arrived back at base camp. More details to follow…
K2 Summit Success!!
We just received a sat phone call from the summit of K2 (8611m/28,251ft), the second highest point on Earth. Garrett Madison, Matt Du Puy, and Alan Arnette have just become the 16th, 17th, and 18th Americans to stand on the summit of K2, the first American K2 summit success since 2007. Garrett sounded fantastic! A […]
K2 Summit Success!
We just received a sat phone call from the summit of K2 (8611m/28,251ft), the second highest point on Earth. Garrett Madison, Matt Du Puy, and Alan Arnette have just become the 16th, 17th, and 18th Americans to stand on the summit of K2, the first American K2 summit success since 2007. Garrett sounded fantastic! A […]
Climb on! Heading for the summit of K2
The RainOn powered real-time tracking map shows that the climbing team has just left Camp 4 at 25,200 ft. and is heading for the summit of K2! Message Type startTrack Trackpoint 65 of 65 Time 7/26/2014 5:31:00 PM UTC Latitude 35.87823° Longitude 76.52377° Elevation 25,046 ft. Distance 0.066 mi. Heading 267.3° Total Distance 5.75 mi.
Camp 4: K2 Summit Push
Transcript: Today is Saturday, July 26th at 6:00pm and we are up at High Camp with Alan and Matt. Our plan is to leave in about four hours for our summit push. A few climbers made the summit today and are on their way back now and we are very happy for them. It is […]
Camp 3: K2 Summit Push
Transcript: Hey, this is Garrett Madison from Madison Mountaineering calling in from Camp 3 on K2. Today is July 25th. It’s 6:00pm and myself, Alan Arnette, and Matt Du Puy along with our sherpa team are all up at Camp 3 right now. Today we climbed from Camp 2 up and over The Black Pyramid […]
Camp 2: K2 Summit Push
Failed sat phone connection attempts did not allow expedition leader, Garrett Madison, to provide an audio update of the K2 summit push progress today. However, the RainOn tracking map shows they arrived at Camp 2 (6700m/21,980ft) just before noon local time. Team member Alan Arnette was able to provide a great audio update on his […]