Yesterday our private team on Ama Dablam reached the summit with a clear sky and calm winds. They had the whole mountain to themselves and savored the views from up on the summit of the surrounding peaks Everest, Lhotse, Makalu, Cho Oyu, and many others.
It’s been a pleasure to follow their smooth progress during the past 2 weeks, they had great route conditions and weather throughout the expedition. We are very proud of them all for their safe and successful climb of Ama Dablam! Way to go team!
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Our Ecuador Volcanoes knocked off another volcano summit – Illiniza Norte (5126m/16,818ft) – as they continued acclimatizing and getting ready for Cotopaxi! Lead guide, Estalin Suárez has the day’s audio expedition dispatch:
We just summit today Illiniza Norte, which is 16,800 ft. We had a clear morning, but just before we reached the summit we got some clouds. But anyways, we summitted. Carter and Saskia are feeling pretty good and very motovated to keep climbing and focusing on Cotopaxi.
Now we are at the Chuquiragua Lodge just resting. Tomorrow we are going to drive to the Cotopaxi lodge and just have one day rest before the Cotopaxi attempt.
I’ll keep in touch! Bye!
Hiking up Illiniza Norte
Climbers Carter B. and Saskia J. nearing the summit of Illiniza Norte
Climbers Carter B. and Saskia J. on the summit of Illiniza Norte
Guide Estalin Suárez and climbers Carter B. and Saskia J. on the summit of Illiniza Norte
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Our Ecuador Volcanoes team continued their acclimatizing today with the hike up the inactive, eroded stratovolcano Corazón (4790m/15,720ft). Lead guide, Estalin Suárez has the day’s audio expedition dispatch:
So, today we hiked up to the summit of the Corazón volcano, which is 15,700 ft. The weather wasn’t that good. It was a little bit foggy and a little bit windy. But, yeah, we summit! We did around seven hours up and down. The weather didn’t help so much, but anyway, we’ve been having fun training for the next mountains.
Carter and Saskia are feeling well and getting used to the altitude. So we are now at the lodge, just having a rest and looking forward for the next mountains.
Bye!
Ready to head up Corazón
Hiking up Corazón
Climbers Carter B. and Saskia J. acclimatizing on Corazón
Climbers Carter B. and Saskia J. nearing the summit of Corazón
Guide Estalin Suárez and climbers Carter B. and Saskia J. on the summit of Corazón
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Our team members arrived in Quito, Ecuador on Saturday and today started hiking Ecuador volcanoes to begin the acclimatization process and ready themselves for the big expedition objective of Cotopaxi (5897m/19,347ft), the second-highest summit in Ecuador and one of the highest active volcanoes in the world. Today they gained 700 meters of elevation by summiting the extinct volcano, Pasochoa. Here’s lead guide, Estalin Suárez with a recap of the day:
We just started with our acclimatization process with a summit of Pasochoa volcano, which is 13,700 ft. (4200m). We got a really nice day, really nice hike, we were walking for around 4 hours, and now we are at the Chuquiragua Lodge at the bottom of the Ilinizas area. We are just resting and getting ready for tomorrow.
So, okay, bye!
Hiking Pasochoa
Climbers heading up Pasochoa
Nearing the summit of Pasochoa
Guide Estalin Suárez and climbers Carter B. and Saskia J. on the summit of Pasochoa
Climbers Carter B. and Saskia J. on the summit of Pasochoa
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With 100% summit success, the team is back in base camp celebrating, and getting ready to head back to Kathmandu. Garrett provides the recap and a ton of awesome photos of their summit day:
Beautiful morning! We summited with 100% success, all four of our climbers plus myself and Aang Phurba and our Sherpa team made it to the top of Ama Dablam!
We got down safe and some of our members continued down to base camp and the rest of us were down today. We are looking forward to starting the trek out tomorrow to make our way back to Lukla and then Kathmandu.
We are feeling so fortunate and lucky that we had a beautiful summit day, great weather, and great route conditions up there and all of our team made the summit and made it down safely.
Summit day climbing on Ama Dablam
Climber J.B. and Garrett on the summit of Ama Dablam
Climber Jonathan E. on the summit of Ama Dablam
Good times on the Ama Dablam summit
Climber Jon E. with Garrett and Mount Everest in the background from the Ama Dablam summit
Last night in base camp with our team celebrating our successful Ama Dablam expedition!
Summit Ama Dablam and get some cake!
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Our Ama Dablam team has set the plan to head for the summit tonight! Here expedition leader Garrett Madison with the team dispatch from 6000m at Camp 2:
Hello! This is Garrett calling in from Camp 2 on Ama Dablam. I’m in the tent here with Jon and J.B. Tonight is our summit night. Next door is Morgan and Shine and our Sherpa team is not far away. It’s November 7th at 5:30 P.M.
Our plan is to have some dinner, go to sleep, and wake up around midnight to set off for the summit. Hopefully we’ll have good weather and route conditions and get lucky.
We’re looking forward to a beautifull day up there. So, we’ll check in when we get back from our summit day tomorrow. All’s well here at Camp 2 on Ama Dablam!
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The summit push is on and the team headed up from base camp to Camp 1 (5792m/19,000ft) today. Garrett Madison provides today’s expedition dispatch via a somewhat garbled and truncated sat phone call:
Hello, this is Garrett Madison calling in for the Ama Dablam expedition team. Today is November 6th and today we left base camp to begin our summit push. Our summit rotation day one means we climbed from base camp up to Camp 1 today, gained about 4,000 vertical feet, and the team did great today. Everyone – J.B., Morgan, Shine, and Jon – all did really well. Myself and Aang Phurba… [garbled] …team… [garbled] …Sherpas… [transmission dropped]
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While our Ama Dablam team is waiting for the coming weather window to go for the summit, they celebrated expedition leader Garrett Madison‘s birthday at base camp:
Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the Ama Dablam expedition team. Today is November 4th and we are in base camp. We’ve been taking a few extra rest days here watching the weather forecast. It looks like some winds, strong winds, up high and we’re gonna rest a few more days until the forecast shows a good opportunity for a summit window. So, probably at least a couple of more days here in base camp.
Everyone’s doing well. We are enjoying some nice weather, good times resting, and we’re looking forward to another great day here in base camp, All is well!
Ama Dablam base camp
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