Settling into base camp!

The Madison Mountaineering Ama Dablam expedition team has reached their base camp and begun to get settled into their temporary home! The team enjoyed excellent views on their hike up from Pangboche and are filled with excitement as they are many steps closer to the mountain, with their first rotation set to start in just a few days. Expedition leader, Terray Sylvester checks in with this dispatch from Nepal:

Hello! This is Terray calling in for the Madison Mountaineering Ama Dablam (6812m/22,349ft) expedition – today is October 27th.

Today we hiked from Pangboche village (3985m/13,074ft) up here to Ama Dablam base camp (4600m/15,100ft). It was a great hike, another sunny day with fantastic views of the mountain along the way! Now, we’ve gotten settled into our box tents here in base camp and some of our members have had nice, hot showers and we’re just settling down to dinner in our Mountain Hardwear Space Station Dome. It’s a beautiful evening, a starry sky with just a faint blush of peak off to the west and we can see a few headlamps high on the southwest ridge heading toward the summit of Ama Dablam.

So, all is well here in Nepal and we’ll be in touch tomorrow!

The team with their objective! (Photo by Terray Sylvester)

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