Our first Mount Vinson expedition of the season is just boarding their flight to Antarctica from Punta Arenas, Chile. Here’s expedition leader Garrett Madison with the details:
Hey! This is Garrett calling in for the Madison Mountaineering Vinson expedition – our first one of the season. We are flight to Antarctica! We just getting ready to board the Boeing 757 jet here in Punta Arenas. We are taking off in about a half an hour and we’ll fly for four and a half hours over the Drake Passage to Union Glacier camp in Antarctica, where we’ll spend a couple of nights and then fly over to Vinson base camp and start our climb.
So, we’re very excited that everything’s on schedule here – we’ve got good weather and we’re looking forward to getting to Vinson! All’s well here and we’ll check-in soon!
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 guide’s daily audio expedition updates on select expeditions
– Instagram:
