The remaining members of the June 11th team are on the summit of Denali right now! The weather is beautiful today and they are most certainly enjoying amazing views right now. They’ll descend back down to high camp over the next several hours where they’ll spend the night and recover from their long day. Congratulations…
Sun Bin called in from the team’s 17,200′ high camp, optimistic that they might have a shot at the top tomorrow! The team has been waiting at camp for four days, while it has snowed and snowed. The clouds have begun to part, and they are hopeful that they might have a chance to head…
The June 11 team is at High Camp, poised to make a summit attempt as soon as the weather cooperates. Team leader Sean McManamy reports that it’s windy and cold at High Camp, but the team is keeping warm and is safely tucked into their tents behind high snow walls to block the wind. One…
Brian Muller called in from 14,200′, as the team rests while awaiting their chance to move up to High Camp at 17,200′. The team is doing well and they were somewhat invigorated by talking to three of our other teams that all reached the summit today. The plan is for the team to move up…
Mountain Trip guide Sean McManamy called in to report that the team cached a load of equipment and supplies high on the ridge at 16,000 ft. The ascent begins immediately out of 14 Camp, climbs “the Headwall” on fixed lines, and then the team gets on top of the ridge and works up to the…
The team had a relatively easy day today, they were able to sleep in a little after their big move up to the 14,000 ft camp yesterday. After a big breakfast, they went down the glacier about 700 vertical feet to the place where they had cached their food and fuel a couple of days…
The team carried a load of gear up from the 11,000ft camp up to a spot around “Windy Corner” at about 13,500 ft and cached it in preparation for moving up to the 14,000ft camp tomorrow. They are doing great and taking advantage of some good weather, which has been rarely seen this season in…
Brian Muller and one of our friends from across the Pacific called in from the beautiful basin camp at 11,200′ to update us on the progress of our group of climbers from China. They moved up to this camp yesterday and today took a relatively easy day, when they dropped down 300m to retrieve the…
The team carried loads of supplies up the Kahiltna Glacier to a point just below Kahiltna Pass, the lowest point between Denali and the western portion of the Alaska Range today. This area is notorious for channeling weather, but the team did not have any such challenge today. They are poised to move up to…
We just received our first check in from out team of Chinese climbers who joined us for an attempt of the West Buttress. We have a team of five climbers who have traveled across the Pacific and are climbing with our guides Sean McManamy and Brian Muller. I’m afraid I cannot help much with the…