The route to Camp 1 is in!
Autumn Everest expedition leader, Garrett Madison, report on the exciting progress today:
Hello! This is Garrett calling in for the Mountain Hardwear Autumn Everest Expedition with Madison Mountaineering. Today is September 21st and we had a GREAT day!
Exciting news: our sherpa team was able to find the route through the icefall and reached Camp 1! So, the route is open to Camp 1! The other climbers had a great day in base camp, relaxing and doing a little training out in the icefall. Beautiful day here.
Tomorrow we are looking forward to another good weather day and further process on the route and planning for our first rotation up to the high camps.
All’s well here at base camp and we’ll check-in soon. Thanks!
Garrett rocks the new Garmin MARQ Expedition at 17,701 ft. elevation Everest Base Camp. Keeping everything running on time.
Enjoying the comforts of the awesome, new Mountain Hardwear Space Station at EBC
In addition to these expedition dispatches, you can also follow the team as they trek to Everest Base Camp and then make their attempt to summit the world’s highest mountain 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
– Instagram:
– our Garmin inReach Mini powered real-time tracking map:
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