K2 Puja!

Today on K2: Puja! As is the custom before any climbing begins, a Puja ceremony is held to ask the mountain for blessings and safe passage. What follows is a fun afternoon party. Here’s Garrett with the details:

Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the K2 expedition team! Today we had our Puja ceremony. It was a great day with all of our climbing members, our Nepal sherpa staff, and our Pakistani climbing staff and base camp team. We asked the mountain for safe passage and blessings. We had a Buddist Lama conduct the ceremony and afterward we had a dance party! It was a lot of fun – good spirits all around. And now we are excited to begin climbing up the mountain. Beautiful weather here on K2 and looking forward to another great day!