Getting ready to go up!

The Madison Mountaineering Manaslu expedition team is prepared to start their first rotation on the mountain! While the Sherpa team has been hard at work making carries to prepare the higher camps, our climbers sorted gear and chose their meals, getting mentally prepared for the climbing to come. After a good nights sleep, we’ll be on the move tomorrow! Expedition leader, Terray Sylvester checks in with this dispatch from Manaslu Base Camp:

Hello! This is Terray calling in for the 2026 Madison Mountaineering Manaslu (8156m/26,759ft) expedition. Today is September 16.

This morning was a nice day here in Manaslu Base Camp (4859m/15,944ft)! We had a little bit of rain in the afternoon, but the morning was partly clear with some nice views up the north face of Manaslu. And we spent the day preparing for our rotation. We’re planning to move up to Camp I (5700m/18,700ft) tomorrow. The team chose their meals for Camp I and got gear sorted out. And our Sherpa team will do another carry this evening up to Camp I, up to Camp II (6400m/21,000ft). So things are looking good for progress above base camp!

Everything’s going well here in Nepal, and 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