Trip Reports
Climber Grant Maughan called in an update on the June 13th West Buttress Team, hunkered down at 14-Camp (Camp Three) preparing to weather a bit of a storm that’s forecasted to come through over the next couple of days. The wind and snow was starting to move in to camp at the time of the…
Climber Julie Leigh called in an update on the June 17 West Buttress team, back at camp after a day of heading up the route to set a cache at around 13,500′ around Windy Corner. Other teams in the area have mentioned that Windy Corner lived up to its namesake today, with blustery weather. For…
Jesse Wright called in an update for the June 22nd team, who has arrived at Denali Base Camp! Unfortunately Jesse cuts out before he can go through introductions for the team, but check out their photos below from their flight out! See the previous “Meet the Team” post for them if you missed that, too!…
Andrew Alexander King reported in from our June 20th West Buttress team’s Camp 1 on the Kahiltna Glacier. It’s hard to tell if they are having any fun at all – NOT! Through the chuckles and laughter, he was able to share a very nice update that the team put in their first cache of…
Lead Guide Elías de Andrés Martos called in on behalf of Sue and Andrew from the beautiful basin camp at 11,000′ on the Wets Buttress of Denali. The weather was a bit iffy today and they decided not to push the high winds that were scouring the route above them. Rather, they took a rest…
Skip Drew Called in from Genet Basin at 14,200 feet on the West Buttress route of Denali. The team has been watching the weather forecast and planning their move to High Camp, three thousand feet above. The forecast has been a bit mixed, but seems to be improving, so they are hoping to push high…
Andrew Alexander King rang via satellite phone from 7,800 feet on the Kahiltna Glacier. The team departed early in the morning from their Base Camp at 7,200′ on a tributary glacier known as the Southeast Fork of the Kahiltna. Their day began by hiking downhill, pulling heavy sleds and managing hefty backpacks as they SE…
Apologies for the broken connection when the team sang a ditty from 11,000 feet – the sateelite connection seemed to have faltered or… maybe not? Tough to say, but the crew seems in fine spirits after a challenging day of ferrying loads around the infamous Windy Corner today. They loaded up their packs and climbed…
Frank called in from Camp 3 after the team carried loads up the steep Headwall section of the West Buttress and onto the ridge above. It was a big day, climbing to close to 16,500 feet and the crew ascended the steepest climbing they have yet to encounter on the route. Here’s Frank! recording
Terry Sanders gave a call from the beautiful basin camp at 11,000′ after the team had an active rest day of sorts. They slept in, at a big breakfast and then dropped down out of camp to retrieve the cache of supplies they had buried a couple days ago at around 10,00 feet. In climber…