Waiting patiently

The Madison Mountaineering Karakoram expedition teams are now safely back together again in base camp! After a strong effort on Broad Peak, the team descended back down the mountain along with the other teams, due to poor weather and route conditions. The team is all in good spirits and waiting patiently! Both the K2 and Broad Peak expedition teams hope for a weather window to make another attempt soon. Expedition leader, Terray Sylvester checks in with this dispatch from K2 Base Camp:

Hello again from the foot of K2 (4968m/16,300ft)! We’re still playing the expedition waiting game here, watching our forecast for a weather window with winds low enough for a summit bid on K2 (8611m/28,251ft). While we wait, we’ve been going for hikes, and practicing our technical skills and ice climbing on the towers of the Godwin-Austen Glacier.

Our Broad Peak (8051m/26,414ft) climbers have returned to base camp, after they – and the other teams on the mountain – were turned around by poor weather and deep snow above Camp 3. We’re looking for a window for them to make another attempt.

We’ll be in touch!

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:

• @MadisonMtng
• @GarrettMadison1
• @terray_s