Back in Base Camp

The Madison Mountaineering mountain cleanup project expedition team has safely returned back to the comforts of their base camp. With a successful first rotation under their belts, the team plans to continue their cleanup efforts in and around base camp, rest up, and recover before looking to move further up the mountain. Expedition leader, Terray Sylvester checks in with this dispatch from Annapurna Base Camp:

We descended to base camp (4130m/13551ft) this morning through a dusting of fresh snow, under clearing skies. Now we’re taking showers, doing laundry & looking forward to a few rest days. During our rotation, we cleaned trash and old fixed line from the rocky terrain around Camp 1 and the route up to it. Tomorrow we plan to pick up trash around base camp and along the approach to base camp up the Mistri Khola Gorge. All is well. We’ll be in touch.

In addition to these expedition dispatches, you can also follow our teams as they make their attempts on the world’s most formidable mountains on:

– Amazon Alexa devices with the Madison Mountaineering Flash Briefing skill:

• Enable the skill and add to your flash briefing to hear our daily audio expedition updates on select expeditions.  Just say, “Alexa, play my flash briefing.“

– Instagram:

• @MadisonMtng
• @GarrettMadison1
• @terray_s