It’s been a whirlwind of activity the past few days for the Vinson team. Congrats to Tom and Lloyd; Tom reached the summit of Vinson Massif and Lloyd topped out on the ridge just below the summit. The team headed back to High Camp, then quickly down to Base Camp. They were trying to stay…
The guys moved on up to Camp 1, also known as Low Camp, today in just over 5 hours. It’s a good glacier hike from base camp up towards the foot of Mount Vinson, and it’s all uphill from here! They’ll probably take a day to rest tomorrow, and then up the nearly 3000 ft…
Lloyd Charton called in from Antarctica! He and Tom arrived yesterday and are at Vinson Base Camp. Unfortunately, the satellite phone call was pretty garbled and then cut off, so it’s a bit hard to understand. It sounds like they are about to hike up the Branscomb Glacier to the first of two camps that…
Mountain Trip is thrilled to help our friend Lloyd Charton (who climbed Denali with us in 2012), owner of Lux Adventures, with executing an expedition to Mount Vinson, in Antarctica. Lloyd will be joined by Tom Thomas on this adventure to the bottom of the earth! At 16,067 feet (4897m), Mount Vinson is the highest…