K2 2022 Kicks Off with team arriving in Skardu!
Our 2022 K2 expedition has started!! The team arrived in Islamabad on June 18th and drove by motor coach to the staging city of Skardu enjoying a small adventure along the way. Here’s expedition leader, Garrett Madison, with the expedition’s initial dispatch:
Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the Madison Mountaineering K2 2022 expedition team. Today is June 19th and we arrived in Skardu today after a drive from Islamabad. The weather’s been bad the last few days, so all the flights from Islamabad to Skardu have been canceled. So, we took buses and drove yesterday on the Karakoram Highway and reached Skardu around midnight.
There was a big boulder that came down over the road at one point and we actually had to walk across by foot and have new vehicles met us on the other side to transport us to Skardu. It was an adventure to say the least! A fun way to start the trip.
We’re just waiting on clearance here in Skardu, then we’ll head off tomorrow, hopefully by jeep, drive all the way to Jhola Camp (3151m/10,338ft), spend the night, and then start trekking the next day towards K2 base camp.
Everyone’s doing well, we’re excited to be here and looking forward to the journey ahead.
K2 team traveled by bus from Islamabad to Skardu
Climber Nelly and Ang Purba enjoy reaching Diamer, Pakistan
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:
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