Getting ready to fly to The Ice!

Checking in for the flight to Union Glacier, Antarctica

Our Mount Vinson Team Two is ready to fly to Antarctica tomorrow morning!  Here’s guide Terray Sylvester with today’s expedition dispatch:

Hello, this is Terray calling in for the second Madison Mountaineering Mount Vinson expedition of our season.  It’s December 28th.

We’ve had a beautiful few days here in Punta Arenas enjoying some nice summer sunny weather, also a little bit of rain.  But today was a good day, we checked in for our flight down to “The Ice.”  We received our boarding passes, which is exciting.  We are all looking forward to getting on our flight tomorrow morning.  We’ll take off from Punta Arenas and then head south across the Strait of Magellan and the Southern Ocean and along the Antarctic Peninsula to Union Glacier Camp.  We may stay there tomorrow night or we may be able to continue directly on to Mount Vinson base camp.  We can’t wait for that!

We can’t wait to get the climb started and we’ll be in touch!

Checking bags

Checking bags

Dinner at La Marmita in Punta Arenas. Great seafood!

Dinner at La Marmita in Punta Arenas. Great seafood!

Punta Arenas architecture

Punta Arenas architecture

Punta Arenas statues

Punta Arenas statues


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:

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