Settled in Advanced Base Camp

The Madison Mountaineering K2 expedition team reached advanced base camp today under blue skies, with great views of the surrounding peaks, and the route above them. They’ll spend several nights here acclimatizing and cleaning up some of the trash that’s accumulated in and around the camp. The team is remaining in good spirits and hopeful to move higher up the mountain soon! Expedition leader, Terray Sylvester checks in with this dispatch from K2‘s Advanced Base Camp:

Hello from K2 ABC (5303m/17,400ft)! This afternoon we hiked here and settled into our tents. We’re planning to spend two nights here acclimatizing and cleaning up trash before we return to base camp (4968m/16,300ft). The weather was beautiful today — sunny skies and slightly cooler temperatures. 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.“

– Instagram:

• @MadisonMtng
• @GarrettMadison1
• @terray_s