Under beautiful, clear-blue skies our team is moving up to Low Camp today at 9,100 feet! Expedition leader, Garrett Madison checks in with a brief message before the teams departure from Vinson Base Camp:
Heading up to low camp (2774m/9,100ft) today, nice weather here!
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Mount Vinson Team Three spent an active rest day at Low Camp today as they prepare to move up tomorrow. Guide Terray Sylvester provides the details of the day:
We all spent the day at Low Camp. We spent part of the day refreshing the skills we will need higher on the mountain and then we also hiked to col near camp which is located on the original route up that was used on the mountain back in the ’60s. There were some great views from that col of both the Antarctica landscape and the Mount Epperly.
Tomorrow we’ll move to High Camp, if the weather permits. So we’re looking forward to that.
We’ll be in touch!!
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Our already speedy Mount Vinson Team Three flew from Union Glacier Camp to the base camp for Mount Vinson and immediately headed up the hill to Low Camp (2774m/9,100ft)! Guide Terray Sylvester checks in from there with today’s expedition dispatch:
Today we flew from Union Glacier Camp to Vinson Base Camp – a beautiful sunny day. Then we moved directly to Low Camp (2774m/9,100ft). We just enjoyed a good dinner of hamburgers and tortellini with red sauce and sauted pumpkin. Now everyone’s heading to sleep.
Tomorrow we’ll take a rest day and then hopefully move on up to High Camp (3536m/11,600ft).
All is well! We’ll be in touch!
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We are at Low Camp on Mount Vinson, and our plan is to head up to High Camp (3536m/11,600ft) tomorrow if the weather is good. We’re about ready to get to bed here for a good night’s rest. And then, tomorrow, wake up, have breakfast, and take a look at the weather. If it’s good, we’ll head up to High Camp.
All’s well here on Vinson. Have a wonderful Christmas Day! We’ll check in soon.
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Today our Mount Vinson team one moved into their Christmas location of Low Camp on Mount Vinson. Meanwhile, in Punta Arenas, Chile, our Mount Vinson team two arrived and will spend the next few days preparing for their flight to Union Glacier, Antarctica. Here’s Garrett via sat phone with the recap of the day on Mount Vinson:
Hello, this is Garrett calling in for the Madison Mountaineering Mount Vinson expedition team. It’s Christmas Eve, December 24th here and we climbed up from Vinson Base Camp to Low Camp today on Mount Vinson.
We left base camp mid-day after packing up and caching our gear. We climbed about eight hours up to Low Camp (or Camp 1) on Vinson. We had nice weather, it was a little blustery and snowy starting out for the first few hours and then the wind let up a little bit and we actually got a little sun up here at Low Camp and had a Christmas Eve dinner. We had some salmon, some mixed vegetables, some empanadas, and some mangos and chocolates for dessert. It was a fun evening. We’re glad to be up here at Low Camp. It was a long and tiring day but we’re feeling good and we’re looking forward to a rest day tomorrow on Christmas Day.
All’s well here at Low Camp on Mount Vinson. We’ll check in soon and happy Christmas Eve to everyone out there!
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