Hello everyone and thank you for following our Mountain Trip Denali West Buttress Expedition. After being back in Anchorage for two days, unpacking, cleaning equipment and resting, I think we all have had time to think back on this amazing, exciting and for some, life-changing expedition. I do warn people that expeditions are addictive…! We…
I spoke with Laura Duncan a bit ago, and she related the team’s rapid descent from high camp, in order to catch one of the first flights off the glacier this morning. The team asked to just keep going, rather than break the descent up into a couple of days, as we generally do these…
As we have tried to stress in our previous posts, satellite calls from Denali are not a sure thing, and this season it seems as if satellite connections are more temperamental than ever, so teams cannot always call in an audio post. We do have updates on all of our teams, and want to keep…
The team awoke early today, looked out of their tents and saw that the weather looked favorable. They packed up and pushed up to the summit of Denali!! The climb took them about 7 hours before they reached the top. The weather was great and they are enjoying clear, huge views of the Alaska Range…
After several days of watching the winds blow on the upper mountain, the team was rewarded with a beautiful day and took advantage of the change in weather to climb to high camp. It’s one of the most beautiful days of climbing of the trip and it sounds like they enjoyed it. They may go…
Alan called in for the evening dispatch from the May 30 Denali team. It’s been windy up at high camp and the team is waiting for the weather to settle down a bit before moving up and pushing for the summit. Here’s Alan. recording
Our guide Ted Grosgebauer called in from 14,200′ as the team took their first weather day of the expedition. They are all set to move up to high camp, but the tell tale plumes of snow streaming off the ridge between where they currently are, and where they want to go next, told them that…
Roxana Chavez called in from the big, bustling camp at 14,200′. Today was a planned rest and acclimatization day, the first true rest day that the team has taken since starting up the glacier. They took a short hike to the edge of the basin, a spot known as “The Edge of the World,” for…
Sebastian called in with an update this evening from our May 30th team. They climbed up to about 16,600 ft to cache some food and gear on the ridge leading towards high camp, before descending back to their camp at 14,200 ft. It was another beautiful day and the team did great climbing up the…
They May 30 team continues to enjoy great weather and they are moving right along. Here’s the call from Camp 3 tonight. recording