Cleaning up K2 Base Camp!

Another good day is behind us in K2 Base Camp! The Madison Mountaineering Karakoram expeditions team awoke to more sunshine, fueled up with breakfast, and then took to some of the nearby ice formations to continue sharpening their skills for the climbs coming up. Excellent views presented themselves in every direction, making for quite the training ground! After finishing up training for the day, the team wasted no time and got right to work on our cleanup initiatives around K2 base camp, picking up 75lbs of trash to be properly disposed of. Expedition leader, Terray Sylvester checks in with this dispatch from K2:

Today was another productive day in K2 Base Camp (4968m/16,300ft). The weather was excellent again, so we devoted the morning to another technical skills session on the ice pinnacles beside base camp. In the afternoon, we started our trash cleanup initiative. One of our K2 (8611m/28,251ft) climbers, Ryan Mitchell, has raised money to clean up waste at base camp, and on the mountain itself, in partnership with the Madison Mountaineering Foundation. This afternoon our crew picked up 75lbs of waste on the outskirts of base camp. We’ll continue cleaning up trash as our expedition progresses. We’ll be in touch tomorrow!

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.“

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