More cleanup efforts in the Karakoram!

Upon exiting their tents, the Madison Mountaineering team welcomed a blanket of fresh snow on their base camp! As they day continued on, the clouds above them cleared over head, allowing the team to conduct some further cleanup efforts around camp. Over the course of the expedition, they’ve removed over 300 pounds of trash with no plans of stopping any time soon! With plans to move up to advanced base camp soon, they’ll shift their focus to climbing, but do some cleanup in the process. Expedition leader, Terray Sylvester checks in with this dispatch from K2 Base Camp:

Hello from K2 Base Camp (4968m/16,300ft)! Today we woke up to several inches of fresh snow in camp and clearing skies. By lunch the snow had melted off around camp. So we headed out for a second trash cleanup session. Our climbers and staff picked up 111 kilos today. That brings our total so far to 145 kilos, or about 320 pounds. We’re planning to move our cleanup to advanced base camp (5303m/17,400ft) next. We’ll be in touch tomorrow!

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