Rest Day on Manaslu!

The Madison Mountaineering Manaslu expedition team took a well-deserved rest day today following their first rotation on the mountain! The team won’t be getting too comfortable as they plan to move back up the mountain soon to continue their acclimatization efforts. Nutritious meals, showers, and a movie are welcome comforts at nearly 16,000 feet above sea level. Expedition leader, Terray Sylvester checks in with this dispatch from the Himalayas:

Hi! This is Terray calling in from Manaslu (8156m/26,759ft) base camp (4859m/15,944ft) – today is September 14th.

Today we had a rest day here in BC. It was a really nice day! We dried out our things, got some showers, had some nice meals, and we’re just about to have dinner and then watch a movie. Tomorrow, we plan to move back up to Camp 1 (5700m/18,700ft) to start another rotation. We’ll spend one night at Camp 1 and then likely head on up to Camp 2 (6400m/21,000ft) for one or two nights. After that, we’ll return to base camp and we should be in good shape at that point for our eventual summit push!

So, all is well here in base camp! Today was really a nice day and 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