The Hillary step, named for Sir Edmund, is the last steep step before reaching the summit of Mount Everest from the Southeast Ridge and most years it can be a pretty tricky spot to climb and a real bottleneck for climbers who are almost at the summit. In 1953 this 12 meter high rock step…
Training for Mountaineering Preparing to climb a big mountain like Denali or Mount Everest requires a lot of work and is a huge investment in time and money. Training for mountaineering is primarily about endurance, but how do you build that endurance, and what is endurance? We strive to ensure that climbers who join us…
A slideshow we put together after Mountain Trip’s 2009 Denali expedition season. The mountain certainly hasn’t changed, and a lot of the characters are still around climbing and guiding on Denali today. We are excited to be getting ready for Mountain Trips 42nd year of guiding climbers on the gem of North American mountaineering. We…