Vinson Blog
Back Home I am back home now after a long series of flights. I want to thank my friend Jim Carroll who upgraded me to business class for my flight from Santiago to Toronto. It was oh so nice and a great restful way to return home. Jim is a great keynote speaker and you [...]
Back at Union Glacier We are now back at Union Glacier base camp. We arrived just in time for lunch yesterday. After a restful night at the base of Mt. Charles we packed up and started the ski back to Union Glacier base camp. The initial part of the ski presented some tricky ground as [...]
Mount Charles Today has been a day of contrasts. From extreme cold and wind to complete stillness and heat. From hyperactivity to complete lack of movement. The wind raged all night, but I slept through most of it. From 5:30am on I laid in my sleeping bag and listened to the freight train roar and [...]
Yesterday we left Union Glacier base camp and started to ski across the Union Glacier. Our plan was to ski to the mountains in the distance and do some climbing. However after four hours and 15km we did not seem to be getting any closer. We set up camp in the middle of this huge [...]
Back in Contact (from Scott) We are back at Union Glacier now. We have been experiencing email problems so I have not been able to send a blog until now. On Nov 21 we moved from base camp to low camp. It was a beautiful but long ski through a magnificent valley of 9km. We [...]
Updated by Susan Hello from Scott!! We had a very pleasant surprise today when the phone rang and it was Scott calling from Mt. Vinson base camp. It was so great to hear his voice. He is disappointed and frustrated that he has not been able to get his blog emails to send from the [...]
Continue reading about Vinson Expedition – November 27 updated
Reflections on the climb By Ryan Waters, Mountain Professionals “A special climb of a beautiful mountain in one of the most remote spots in the world. It has been a pleasure for us to be here in the highest mountain range of Antarctica. Of special note on this climb; Scott Kress has completed his Seven [...]
Here is another post on the Mount Vinson Expedition from Ryan Waters: “Everyone is feeling great and we are enoying the warm tents in the sunshine of Antarctica! We had an awesome summit experience and enjoyed coming down today with all our gear in sleds behind us.” Rest day tomorrow, more soon!” Ryan Waters, Mountain [...]
The whole team reached the summit of Vinson today at 4:30 pm Chile time.
Continue reading about Vinson Expedition -Summit Success November 24
Vinson Base Camp On November 19 we were delayed until 11:50 pm for takeoff. The 4.5 hour flight landed us at union glacier at 4:30am. We had some food and waited to fly to Vinson. We arrived at Vinson base Camp at around 4pm on the 20th and set up camp. It was -15c sunny [...]