People & Places
Watch our Kilimanjaro Trek 2020 Webinar
Join Mountain Trip’s lead guides for a virtual trek up Mount Kilimanjaro,
the final installment of out “7 Summits in 7 Weeks” webinar series!
Watch our Mount Elbrus Webinar
Mountain Trip’s lead guides take us for a virtual journey to Mount Elbrus, deep in the Caucasus Mountains of Russia and the highest point in Europe at 18,510′! Watch our next installment of the “Seven Summits in Seven Weeks” series: Mount Elbrus! A guided climb of Elbrus or Mengi Tau (Mountain of a Thousand Mountains)…
Carstensz Pyramid Webinar
Join our next installment of Seven Summits in Seven Weeks: Carstensz Pyramid! Mountain Trip’s lead guides take us for a virtual journey to Carstensz Pyramid (Puncak Jaya) in Indonesia. We’ve had some wild experienced climbing Carstensz Pyramid over the years. No matter your trip, you’re guaranteed a unique adventure. With exotic beaches and jungles below,…
Watch our Aconcagua 2020 Webinar
Recorded webinar: Join Mountain Trip’s lead guides for a discussion on the experience of climbing Aconcagua, with Q&A to follow. The highest peak outside of the Himalaya, Cerro Aconcagua beckons climbers from around the world. This beautiful, high, rugged mountain serves as a great introduction to high altitude mountaineering. Our panel of experienced guides answers…
Watch our Denali 2021 Webinar
Webinar recording: Join Mountain Trip’s lead guides for a look at what it takes to climb Denali as an expedition team, and Q&A session.
Kilimanjaro Climb and Safari Recap
Waking up slowly in my tent on the slopes on Kilimanjaro, I heard camp beginning to stir. Local guides, porters and climbers started to emerge from their tents dotting the Shira I campsite. From a variety of different directions, the common Swahili greeting “Jambo” was being tossed around. In varying degrees of pre-coffee stupor, some…
Moose’s Tooth Alpine Climb
“Ham and Eggs” By Nick Aiello-Popeo, 2017 While most visitors to the Central Alaska Range toil under heavy loads on Denali’s West Buttress, some of us prefer the relatively-smaller surrounding peaks, with their steeper faces and lighter backpacks. It was during my first trip up Denali in 2010, while flipping through a well-worn guidebook in…
Dec 17th Aconcagua Team Reaches Base Camp Today
The Dec. 17 Mountain Trip Aconcagua team had a great day of trekking and are now in basecamp. They woke up early this morning and crossed over the Rio Vacas on the backs of the mules, and continued up the valley to basecamp. The team is all doing great and blown away at how…
Avalanche Rescue Course 2018
Join Mountain Trip for our Avalanche Rescue Course — a one day course designed to teach essential avalanche rescue skills. UPCOMING COURSE DATE: TBD If you ski in the resort sidecountry or backcountry in the San Juans, this avalanche rescue course is a great step in continuing to refresh and build your competency. Both you…