Watching for our window

The Madison Mountaineering Cho Oyu team is settled back into advanced base camp and waiting for their weather window to move up the mountain and go for the summit. While we’ve been enjoying the sunny skies in camp, high winds continue to hit the upper mountain. The team plans to continue evaluating weather and route conditions, hoping for an opportunity to move up the mountain in the next few days! Expedition leader, Garrett Madison checks in with this update from advanced base camp on Cho Oyu:

Hello, this is Garrett checking in for the Madison Mountaineering Cho Oyu expedition team!

We are back up here in our advanced base camp and it seems like the weather has been improving. We’ve got some sunshine, but the winds are quite strong at the moment. Sounds like they’re going to be strong through about the 11th of October. So, we’re just watching the forecast, and boy, there’s a lot of snow here in base camp from the big snowstorm, probably about a meter or so.

But we’re happy to be here with our Sherpa team, and we’re doing well. We’ll check in soon!

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
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