Moved up to Low Camp
Today the Vinson team #1 made the move from base camp to Low Camp (2940m/9,100ft). Expedition leader, Garrett Madison, reports in with today’s dispatch via sat phone:
Hello! This is Garrett calling in for the Madison Mountaineering Mount Vinson expedition. Today is December 23rd and today we climbed from Vinson base camp up to Low Camp.
It took us about five and half hours and we got up to Low Camp in the evening, dug out our cache and set up camp. We had a nice dinner.
All tucked into our tents now and getting ready to go to sleep here. Everyone did great today! We had beautiful weather – it was a nice warm day, hardly any wind, and great views all around. So a wonderful day climb up Mount Vinson.
Our plan for tomorrow is to take a rest. Everyone’s doing great. We will check in soon. Thanks!
(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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