Good Weather for Resting in Base Camp
The K2 team is enjoying some good weather for resting in base camp and looking forward to making their summit attempt plans after the next storm system passes through. Here’s expedition leader Garrett Madison with all the details:
Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the Madison Mountaineering K2 and Broad Peak expedition team. We are here in K2 Base Camp and weather is great. It’s beautiful day and we’re just resting up.
Our sherpas are up on K2 on the Abruzzi Route finishing some load carries to Camp 3 and Camp 4 and some rope fixing as well and getting Camp 4 all stocked up with our equipment for our summit push which we hope do some time in late July.
It looks like after the next couple of days of good weather there will be some snow, a lot of snow actually, and some high winds for a few days. So we are gonna let that storm system pass through and then hopefully by around July 24th we’ll have another patch of good weather enough to make a plan for a summit attempt.
So everyone’s doing well here, we’re just resting up, admiring the views. We’re watching a few climbers make their summit push on Broad Peak right now. They’re going up to Camp 3 and probably going for the summit tomorrow. So it will be fun to watch their progress.
But, all’s well here in Pakistan on the Baltoro Glacier and we’ll check in soon. Thanks!
Looking down the glacier towards Chogolisa from the Gilkey memorial
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