Snowy Day at Everest Base Camp
On a snowy day at Everest Base Camp, expedition leader, Garrett Madison, has this daily report:
Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the Madison Mountaineering Autumn Everest Expedition. Today is September 28th and we had a rest day in base camp as it snowed outside all day and fairly cloudy.
We were very happy to see our friend Kilian Jornet and his friend Carlos come into our camp for a few hours this afternoon and have lunch with us. Kilian’s just back from Namche and planning on heading up in a few days, weather pending.
We heard a big boom today in the icefall, it might have been the serac that we’ve been waiting to break loose and fall down. We won’t know until we get a good view when the weather clears up in a day or two.
But, we’re doing great here in base camp. Everyone’s doing well and just enjoying being here at Everest Base Camp.
[photo above: One week ago at our Camp 1 looking up at Lhotse (📸: Kilian Jornet)]
Recent photo of the serac approximately 1 kilometer above the central portion of the Khumbu Icefall (📸: Andrezj Bargiel)
In addition to these expedition dispatches, you can also follow the team as they trek to Everest Base Camp and then make their attempt to summit the world’s highest mountain 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 map:
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