Co-guide, Conrad Anker, reports in from Mount Vinson that it’s another windy day at High Camp. The team is hunkering down and waiting for a break in the weather for the summit attempt:
Greetings folks! Conrad here from VInson High Camp. It’s the 4th of January 2020. And guess what? It’s our second full day of storm.
Looks like we have a low pressure that is coming off the Amundsen Sea. It’s blowing in from the Northeast. We have winds of a steady 20 knots and it’s about minus 20 celsius, so pretty cold!
But our team is psyched. We’re ready. We had a good time out building snow walls for our tents, cutting blocks and visiting with the other team members here – basically biding our time. Because we know if it wasn’t for a storm every now and then, it would be easy and it wouldn’t be mountaineering and we came here for adventure! We came here for Antarctica. I guess we’re getting served up what we came for.
Thanks for listening in. Talk to you soon. Take care. Conrad signing off.
(photo: Madison Mountaineering archive)
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