ON THE MOVE!
Eric called last night to report that the team has not only flown to Base Camp, but pushed ahead to Camp 1!
The weather at Patriot Hills had been pretty marginal, but the pilots of the Twin Otter aircraft felt that they had a window to take off in and loaded up for the 45 minute flight to the Branscomb Glacier. They arrived at Vinson Base at about 5:30 pm to find the weather much better than that at Patriot. They guys quickly loaded up and made the push up the glacier to a camp beneath the massive face below the summit of Vinson.
Today they will move along the base of the long face (it's not called a mMassif for nothing!) to a camp just around the corner from the steep headwall separating Vinson from its stunning neighbor, Mount Shinn.
Special acknowledgement should be given to Jim Wood and Mike Nixon, who ran the Patriot Hills half marathon the day before the flight to Base Camp. I'm betting that they slept pretty well last night...
The weather at Patriot Hills had been pretty marginal, but the pilots of the Twin Otter aircraft felt that they had a window to take off in and loaded up for the 45 minute flight to the Branscomb Glacier. They arrived at Vinson Base at about 5:30 pm to find the weather much better than that at Patriot. They guys quickly loaded up and made the push up the glacier to a camp beneath the massive face below the summit of Vinson.
Today they will move along the base of the long face (it's not called a mMassif for nothing!) to a camp just around the corner from the steep headwall separating Vinson from its stunning neighbor, Mount Shinn.
Special acknowledgement should be given to Jim Wood and Mike Nixon, who ran the Patriot Hills half marathon the day before the flight to Base Camp. I'm betting that they slept pretty well last night...
posted by Todd Rutledge at
6:38 AM
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