The weather finally cleared just enough for planes to reach base camp today and our friends at Talkeetna Air Taxi swooped in and picked them all up. Special thanks to those guys for working hard to get our climbers out safely today in challenging conditions. After a short time in Talkeetna to get some food,…
The team is at base camp for another night tonight, waiting for the clouds to clear so planes can fly into base camp and pick them up. The planes can only fly into the mountains when there is visibility, so the low cloud layer has prevented them from reaching base camp for the last 2…
The team arrived in base camp this evening after descending through the night last night from high camp. They gave it a good effort, and waited out a bunch of bad weather, but ran out of time on their trip. They are waiting in base camp now, as the continued cloudy weather isn’t allowing planes…
It’s been a stormy few days on Denali and temperatures have returned to “Arctic” in the Alaska Range in the last week. We went from some record breaking hot days with sunshine, right into a classic Denali low pressure storm system with moderate winds, clouds and light snow. Some of the teams managed to move…
The team climbed to high camp today! The weather is still not perfect, but they were able to climb up the ridge and set up camp at 17,200ft. They’ll take a day to rest and acclimatize tomorrow, and then hope to get a chance to summit in the next few days. Simon descended early this…
Christian called in a post from the big basin camp of 14,200′ camp. The team is sitting in camp, acclimatizing and hoping that the weather above will mellow out a bit and allow them to move higher. The extreme high temperatures of last week have been replaced by snow and wind. The forecast is a…
Simon Morly called in from our June 17 team. Simon got a bit caught off, leaving us with something of a cliffhanger as to what he was about to tell us, but I suspect he was about to reference how difficult it might be to believe the inclement weather forecast, given the beautiful weather the…
Our guide Kyle Bates called in a post after the team climbed up the steepest portion of the West Buttress route this morning. They carried loads of supplies up onto the spectacular ridge that leads from the top of a feature known as the Headwall, up to the site of the group’s high camp and…
Seba called tonight to give us an update on the team. While overall the team sounds good, it appears that Grant is working through some medical issues and he made the tough decision to head back down to base camp. The report is that he is en route to Anchorage at this moment. The rest…
Ian checked in from the June 17th Denali team this afternoon. They woke up early this morning and climbed up around Windy Corner at 13,500ft to leave a cache of gear and food for their move up to high camp. They are still getting up early to avoid the heat of the day as it’s…