The Madison Mountaineering Peak Lenin expedition team is set to start the summit push in a few hours time! They’ll get an alpine start out of Camp 1, and return back in a few days after making their go at the summit. Feeling rested and recovered after a few days at lower altitudes, the team is psyched and ready to go! Expedition leader, Terray Sylvester checks in with this dispatch from Peak Lenin:
Hello! This is Terray calling in for the Madison Mountaineering Peak Lenin (7134m/23,406ft) expedition. Today is July 14.
We have spent the last two nights in Camp 1, Advanced Base Camp (4400m/14,435ft) at the foot of Peak Lenin. Tomorrow morning, we are planning to wake up early. We’ll have breakfast at 2:30 AM and then start our summit push. If all goes as planned, in a few days we’ll be standing on the summit of the second highest peak in both Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan at 7,134 meters.
Before we go to bed tonight, we’re also going to celebrate a very special event: the birthday of one of our climbers, Fatima!
So all is well here and we’ll be in touch tomorrow!
Birthday party for our climber, Fatima!
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: