Razdelnaya Peak

The Madison Mountaineering team kicked the weekend off with a climb on Razdelnaya Peak, which neighbors Peak Lenin and stands at over 6,000 meters. In a short time, we’ll descend back down to Advanced Base Camp, marking the end of our acclimatization rotation. The team has been doing great and looks forward to starting their summit push in a few days time! Preparations are almost complete and the team can turn their sights to the summit. Expedition leader, Terray Sylvester checks in with this dispatch from Peak Lenin:

Hello from Camp 2 (5300m/17,388ft)! Today we summited Razdelnaya Peak (6148m/20,170ft) then returned here to Camp 2. Today’s ascent was our team’s second push to 6,000m and above, and this will be our third night at 5,400m. Tomorrow we plan to wrap up our acclimatization rotation and descend back to Advanced Base Camp / Camp 1 (4400m/14,435ft). 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.“

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• @MadisonMtng
• @GarrettMadison1
• @terray_s