Welcome to Everest Base Camp!

Welcome to Everest base camp! Today the team completed the final leg of the trek from Gorak Shep (5164m/16,942ft) to base camp (5364m/17,598ft). Everest guide Stuart Robertson provides today’s update:

Hey folks! Stuart here with Madison Mountaineering. Just checking in with progress today. I’m pleased to report the whole team is up at Everest base camp, the staging point for our climb ahead. Beautiful day today. We left Gorak Shep this morning and followed up the lateral moraine of the glacier. Nice, easy day, got into base camp and quite a testament to Garrett and the Sherpa team and [guide] Conan [Bliss] about beautiful this place is (!), and luxurious.

The team’s all doing really well, we’re listening to Stevie Nicks at the moment, having some fun. We just had a great dinner from Deepak, an Indian meal this evening, some cake for desert. A little bit different from I was here last in the mid 1990’s. Joyce [Azzam] is saying something in the background, but we are ignoring her because she did this cast yesterday. So maybe Joyce can do it again in the future. But again, everyone sends their love. Thanks for tuning in. Tomorrow’s going to be a little bit of an active rest day. We’re just gonna walk around base camp, probably meet some friends, maybe visit HRA, the doctors at base camp, and breath some of that thinner air to continue the aclimitization. Again, thanks alot for tuning in and bye for now! (team shouting byes in the background)