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Everest 2022

Kathmandu City Tour

Today the climbing and trekking teams enjoy a wonderful tour of some of the major sites of Kathmandu and are getting ready to fly up to the mountain village of Luka to begin the trek to Everest base camp tomorrow. Madison Mountaineering guide Terray Sylvester provides a recap of the day:

Hello! This is Terray calling in for the 2022 Madison Mountaineering Mount Everest expedition! It’s April 3rd. Today our climbing and trekking teams enjoyed a tour around two of Kathmandu’s seven UNESCO World Heritage Sites. We went to Pashupatinath Temple, which is the most famous Hindu temple here in the city and we went to the famous Boudhanath Stupa, which is one of the world’s largest Buddist stupas.

Tomorrow our plan is to fly to Lukla so we can begin our trek up to Everest Base Camp. That’s an exciting day and so far the weather forecast looks good! So if all goes as planned, our fixed-winged flights will depart Kathmandu early in the morning and will be in Lukla in time for breakfast.

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

A stone carving at Pashupatinath Temple

Trekker Ryan S. visiting a Buddhist Temple in Boudha

Butter lamps at Boudhanath Stupa

Pashupatinath Temple

Boudhanath Stupa

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 Garrett Madison’s daily audio expedition updates on select expeditions. Just say, “Alexa, play my Madison Mountaineering flash briefing.“

– Instagram:

– our Garmin inReach Mini powered real-time tracking map:

https://madisonmountaineering.com/maps/everest-2022

April 3, 2022/0 Comments/by Garrett

Everest 2022

2022 Mount Everest Expedition Kicks Off!

Welcome to Kathmandu! The Madison Mountaineering Everest 2022 team has arrived in Kathmandu to kick off the Everest expedition and base camp trek. Expedition leader, Garrett Madison, provided this update:

Hello! This is Garrett calling in for the Madison Mountaineering Everest expedition team! Today is April 2nd and all of our members are here now in Kathamandu. We just finished our gear checks today and had a nice team dinner and we’re looking forward to a city tour tomorrow. Everyone’s doing well and we’re happy to be here in Nepal and excited to get the adventure underway.

Thanks and we’ll check in soon!

Sara S. chatting with Madison Mountaineering guide Cacho Beiza at the gear check

Climber Sara S. very excited about all the duffels and to be in Kathmandu!!

Climber Sara S. very excited about all the duffels and being in Kathmandu!!

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 Garrett Madison’s daily audio expedition updates on select expeditions. Just say, “Alexa, play my Madison Mountaineering flash briefing.“

– Instagram:

– our Garmin inReach Mini powered real-time tracking map:

https://madisonmountaineering.com/maps/everest-2022

April 2, 2022/0 Comments/by Garrett

Ama Dablam 2021 - Private

Ama Dablam Summit!

Yesterday our private team on Ama Dablam reached the summit with a clear sky and calm winds. They had the whole mountain to themselves and savored the views from up on the summit of the surrounding peaks Everest, Lhotse, Makalu, Cho Oyu, and many others.

It’s been a pleasure to follow their smooth progress during the past 2 weeks, they had great route conditions and weather throughout the expedition. We are very proud of them all for their safe and successful climb of Ama Dablam! Way to go team!

For climbers interested in learning more about our private expeditions please contact our office.

December 8, 2021/0 Comments/by Kurt

Ama Dablam 2021

Madison Mountaineering 2021 Ama Dablam Summiteers List

We are pleased to announce the following team members successfully obtained the summit of Ama Dablam (6,812 m / 22,349 ft) on November 8, 2021:

#	Name	Country
1	Mr. Garrett Madison	USA
2	Mr. Jonathan Eakes	USA
3	Mr. Morgan Hawes	USA
4	Mr. Gautam Shine	USA
5	Mr. James “J.B.” Waterman	USA
6	Mr. Aang Phurba Sherpa	Nepal
7	Mr. Kam Dorjee Sherpa	Nepal
8	Mr. Siddhi Ghising	Nepal
9	Mr. Fur Lakpa Sherpa	Nepal
10	Mr. Tenzing Sherpa	Nepal

November 9, 2021/0 Comments/by Kurt

Ama Dablam 2021

Team Safely Back in Base Camp

2021 Madison Mountaineering team and friends on the summit of Ama Dablam

With 100% summit success, the team is back in base camp celebrating, and getting ready to head back to Kathmandu. Garrett provides the recap and a ton of awesome photos of their summit day:

Hello, this is Garrett caling in for the Madison Mountaineering Ama Dablam expedition team here in Nepal. Today’s November 9th and yesterday we reached the top of Ama Dablam.

Beautiful morning! We summited with 100% success, all four of our climbers plus myself and Aang Phurba and our Sherpa team made it to the top of Ama Dablam!

We got down safe and some of our members continued down to base camp and the rest of us were down today. We are looking forward to starting the trek out tomorrow to make our way back to Lukla and then Kathmandu.

We are feeling so fortunate and lucky that we had a beautiful summit day, great weather, and great route conditions up there and all of our team made the summit and made it down safely.

Summit day climbing on Ama Dablam

Climber J.B. and Garrett on the summit of Ama Dablam

Climber Jonathan E. on the summit of Ama Dablam

Good times on the Ama Dablam summit

Climber Jon E. with Garrett and Mount Everest in the background from the Ama Dablam summit

Last night in base camp with our team celebrating our successful Ama Dablam expedition!

Summit Ama Dablam and get some cake!

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 daily audio expedition updates on select expeditions

– Instagram:

– our Garmin inReach Mini powered real-time tracking map:

https://madisonmountaineering.com/maps/ama-dablam-2021/

November 9, 2021/0 Comments/by Garrett

Ama Dablam 2021

Ama Dablam Summit Success!

A quick inReach text message while on a break from Garrett:

Just back at camp 3 after the summit, everyone made it! 100% success for all climbers who went up from base camp. Now we will descend carefully.

Congratulations team! Be safe on the descent. More details soon…

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 daily audio expedition updates on select expeditions

– Instagram:

– our Garmin inReach Mini powered real-time tracking map:

https://madisonmountaineering.com/maps/ama-dablam-2021/

November 8, 2021/1 Comment/by Garrett

Ama Dablam 2021

Plan to head for the summit tonight!

Our Ama Dablam team has set the plan to head for the summit tonight! Here expedition leader Garrett Madison with the team dispatch from 6000m at Camp 2:

Hello! This is Garrett calling in from Camp 2 on Ama Dablam. I’m in the tent here with Jon and J.B. Tonight is our summit night. Next door is Morgan and Shine and our Sherpa team is not far away. It’s November 7th at 5:30 P.M.

Our plan is to have some dinner, go to sleep, and wake up around midnight to set off for the summit. Hopefully we’ll have good weather and route conditions and get lucky.

We’re looking forward to a beautifull day up there. So, we’ll check in when we get back from our summit day tomorrow. All’s well here at Camp 2 on Ama Dablam!

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 daily audio expedition updates on select expeditions

– Instagram:

– our Garmin inReach Mini powered real-time tracking map:

https://madisonmountaineering.com/maps/ama-dablam-2021/

November 7, 2021/0 Comments/by Garrett

Ama Dablam 2021

The Summit Push is On!

The summit push is on and the team headed up from base camp to Camp 1 (5792m/19,000ft) today. Garrett Madison provides today’s expedition dispatch via a somewhat garbled and truncated sat phone call:

Hello, this is Garrett Madison calling in for the Ama Dablam expedition team. Today is November 6th and today we left base camp to begin our summit push. Our summit rotation day one means we climbed from base camp up to Camp 1 today, gained about 4,000 vertical feet, and the team did great today. Everyone – J.B., Morgan, Shine, and Jon – all did really well. Myself and Aang Phurba… [garbled] …team… [garbled] …Sherpas… [transmission dropped]

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 daily audio expedition updates on select expeditions

– Instagram:

– our Garmin inReach Mini powered real-time tracking map:

https://madisonmountaineering.com/maps/ama-dablam-2021/

November 6, 2021/0 Comments/by Garrett

Ama Dablam 2021

Waiting for the Weather Window

Celebrating Garrett's birthday at Ama Dablam base camp

While our Ama Dablam team is waiting for the coming weather window to go for the summit, they celebrated expedition leader Garrett Madison‘s birthday at base camp:

Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the Ama Dablam expedition team. Today is November 4th and we are in base camp. We’ve been taking a few extra rest days here watching the weather forecast. It looks like some winds, strong winds, up high and we’re gonna rest a few more days until the forecast shows a good opportunity for a summit window. So, probably at least a couple of more days here in base camp.

Everyone’s doing well. We are enjoying some nice weather, good times resting, and we’re looking forward to another great day here in base camp, All is well!

Ama Dablam base camp

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 daily audio expedition updates on select expeditions

– Instagram:

– our Garmin inReach Mini powered real-time tracking map:

https://madisonmountaineering.com/maps/ama-dablam-2021/

November 4, 2021/0 Comments/by Garrett

Ama Dablam 2021

Rest Day in Base Camp

Our Ama Dablam team is enjoying their second rest day at base camp after the first rotation. Here’s Garrett with the update:

Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the Madison Mountaineering Ama Dablam expedition team. Today is November 2nd, we’re at Ama Dablam base camp, and this is our second rest day after our first rotation up on the route where we spent two nights acclimatizing at Camp 1 and climbing up to Camp 2.

Just taking it easy here in base camp. Lots of good food, nice weather, and passing the time by reading some good books, watching movies, and just enjoying the nice views here and the friendly folks around.

So, all good here and we’ll check in soon!