Merry Christmas from Antarctica!
With Christmas wishes to everyone following along, expedition leader Garrett Madison provides an update of today’s climbing on the highest mountain in Antarctica:
Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the Mount Vinson expedition. Merry Christmas, it’s December 25th and we made our way from Low Camp up to High Camp today.
We had a great day climbing up the fixed lines and beatifull views, hardly any wind, no clouds in the sky, just perfect conditions all around. We made it up to High Camp, dug out our cache, set up our tents, and cooked some dinner. Now we are tucked in our sleeping bags, ready for bed.
We are not exactly sure what we are going to do tomorrow. We are either going to rest or we might give it a shot going to the summit. We’ll see how we’re feeling. The forecast looks good, so we are happy to be up here. Everyone’s doing well and we’ll check it soon.
Merry Christmas!
(photo: Madison Mountaineering archive)
By the way, it’s not too early to start making your plans to join us on Mount Vinson for the 2020/2021 season next December! Contact our office for details.
In addition to these expedition dispatches, you can also follow the teams as they make their attempts to summit the highest mountain in Antarctica on:
– Amazon Alexa devices with the Madison Mountaineering Flash Briefing skill:
- Enable the skill and add to your flash briefing to hear Garrett Madison’s daily audio expedition updates
– Instagram:
– our Garmin inReach Mini powered real-time tracking maps:
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