The Everest and Lhotse expedition team has climbed from Camp 2 (6500m/21,325ft) up the Lhotse Face to Camp 3 (7230m/23,720ft) on their summit push. Expedition leader, Garrett Madison, checks in via Garmin inReach Mini with this brief update:
Greetings from C3. Everyone made it up here today and doing great! Planning to climb to C4 tmrw. A little windy but all good.
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On their summit push, the Everest and Lhotse expedition team strategically took another rest day at Camp 2 (6500m/21,325ft). Expedition leader, Garrett Madison, checks in via Garmin inReach Mini with this brief update:
All is well in C2. Our main team is planning to move to C3 tmrw, targeting the 20th. Kenton & team all safely in EBC.
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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!
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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]
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Our Kilimanjaro team is just finishing up breakfast and getting ready to leave Kosovo high camp and head for the summit! The Summit Push is on! You can follow the team in real-time with our location tracking map: https://madisonmountaineering.com/maps/kilimanjaro-2021-07
Godspeed Kili team, godspeed!
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Hello! This is Garrett calling in for the Madison Mountaineering Everest team. It is nearly midnight on May 23rd and we’re getting ready to head out and go for our summit attempt here on Mount Everest!
A little gusty up here but the winds are supposed to die down. So we’re hoping the forecast holds true and we get some nice, calm winds up there today and a clear sky for a nice view. We’re all excited to start our summit push and we’ve been training hard and prep’d for a long time. So, this is the BIG night!
We’re gonna set off here shortly and we’ll check in when we get back. Thanks!
(photo: Madison Mountaineering archives)
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Today our Everest/Lhotse team moved up from Camp III to Camp IV on the South Col. Conditions were tough with the wind and snow, but everyone did great and are now safely tucked into their tents. The plan is to take a rest day tomorrow (5/22) and go for the summit on the following early morning (5/23). Currently, the wind is blowing on the South Col and it’s too noisy for an audio dispatch. Via our satellite communicator, here’s expedition leader Garrett Madison‘s quick text update:
Greetings from Camp 4 at the South Col. We all made it up here, tough conditions. Will rest tomorrow (22) and leave 22 night for the summit AM of 23.
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Our Everest team is still hanging tight at Camp III on the Lhotse Face and it looks like tomorrow might be the day to move up to the South Col to get into position for a subsequent summit attempt. Here’s Garrett via sat phone with the details:
Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the Madison Mountaineering Everest and Lhtose expedition. Today is May 20th.
We just finished a rest day up here at Camp III. Little bit of a stormy day – a lot of wind and snow. But everyone’s doing good. We’re hoping tomorrow is going to be a little bit better day for our move up to the South Col – Camp IV.
So all’s well here at Camp III – 23,600 feet on the Lhotse Face. We’re looking forward to some sunny skies tomorrow.
We’ll check in soon, thanks!
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The team has moved up to Camp III (7230m/23,720ft) on the Lhotse Face and expedition leader Garrett Madison checks in via sat phone with the day’s recap and the plan for what’s ahead:
Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the Madison Mountaineering Everest and Lhtose expedition. Today is May 19th, just a litte after 7:00 PM.
Today we climbed up from Camp II to Camp III. We are currently in Camp III. Happy to be here on the Lhotse Face. It’s been a stormy day – very blustery, lots of snow fall, and high wind gusts throughout the day. We got up here to our camp and spent the first three hours digging out our tents which had been consumed and covered in fresh snow and spin drift blowing by the wind. Once we got moved into our tents, got our stoves going and made some water, we had dinner. Everyone is getting to bed now.
The weather changed a bit. We were hoping to head up to Camp IV tomorrow, but with the new forecast and the inclement and blustery weather on the way tomorrow, our plan is to hunker down here in Camp III and take a rest day and wait out the weather and then move up to Camp IV the following day on the 21st of May.
Everyone’s doing well here. We had a great day. It was a big push coming up in the tough weather, the high winds, and the snow. But everyone did wonderful. I’m very proud of the team. We’re looking foward to tomorrow up here at Camp III. Hopefully we’ll get a few breaks in the weather and get to enjoy some nice views.
Thanks for checking in! We’ll talk to you soon.
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Our Everest team has been holding tight at Camp II over the past few days as they wait for the weather conditions to open up for a summit attempt. Everyone is doing well and excited to get climbing.
The plan is to move up to Camp III tomorrow (May 19th) and be in position for a summit attempt within the following few days as the weather allows.
Stay tuned for our progress updates!!
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