On the move on Makalu!

The Madison Mountaineering Makalu expedition team is on the move! Weather improved throughout the day as the team climbed higher up the mountain before crawling into their tents for the night. The terrain is inspiring, both the route ahead of them and other surrounding peaks – no shortage of great views here! Expedition leader, Terray Sylvester checks in with this dispatch from Makalu:

Hello from Makalu Camp 1! Today we left base camp after breakfast and enjoyed a peaceful climb here, at first in light snowfall, and then under clearing skies. Now we’re settled into our tents at 6,400m and the skies have cleared. We have great views of the route above us, plus Baruntse (7162m/23,497ft), Ama Dablam (6812m/22,349ft) and many other peaks. We’re looking forward to an active rest day tomorrow before we move to Camp 2. We’ll be in touch tomorrow!

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:

• @MadisonMtng
• @GarrettMadison1
• @terray_s