Back to Carstensz Pyramid!

We’re thrilled to be back on Carstensz Pyramid with a strong team of climbers this June! The Madison Mountaineering team arrived in Timika over the weekend and look forward to their move up to the mountain soon. Our staff have been hard at work setting up base camp and are excited to welcome the rest of our guides and climbers tomorrow! With good weather, helicopters will take us over the lush jungle below, to the foot of Carstensz Pyramid, the highest peak in Oceania and one of the famed seven summits. Expedition leader, Terray Sylvester checks in with this dispatch from Timika:

Hello! This is Terray calling in for the June Madison Mountaineering Carstensz Pyramid  (4884m/16,024ft) Expedition. Today is June 14th.

Our guests all arrived in Timika (31m/103ft) today and we just wrapped up dinner at our hotel. We’re looking forward to flying to the mountain tomorrow morning, weather permitting.

Our staff all flew up there today. They’ve got base camp (4285m/14,050ft) all set up in the Yellow Valley at the base of the highest peak in Oceania, at about 14,000 feet. And the forecast is looking promising for tomorrow, so we’re hoping that we’ll head up to the mountain and be able to get started with the climbing portion of the expedition.

It’s a relatively beautiful day here in Papua. Had a little bit of rain in the morning. But otherwise, it was sunny, wonderful day here in one of the lushest rainforests on the planet. We’ll be in touch tomorrow.

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