The team endured some pretty rough weather with more wind and snow making even descending Denali a challenge. They made it down to base camp early this morning after traveling through the night, and are back in the relative civilization of Talkeetna for breakfast this morning. Our van will pick them up and they’ll be…
The team gave the summit a really good attempt, but it wasn’t in the cards. They headed to the top two days ago, but it was slow going and they had some issues with one climber having trouble with a crampon falling off. They topped out at approximately 18,200′ and had a pow wow, in…
Lead Guide Caitlin Hague called in from 17,200′. The team moved up today on what she described as a glorious day of blue skies interspersed with light snow showers. The ridge is a spectacular place, with fun, engaging climbing weaving between rocky outcrops and along knife edged snow ridges. The exposure off to each side…
Jacqueline “Caribou” Heller called in from 14,200′ after the team took a rest day following yesterday’s carrying of loads of supplies up the steepest part of the route to cache at about 16,400′. That was a tough day, but the energy in Caribou’s voice tells us that she and the team are doing great and…
Lead Guide Caitlin Hague called in on behalf of the June 17th team this evening. She, Wayne, Jacqueline, Margaret and Dan had a fairly mellow day today, dropping down 700′ to retrieve their cache of supplies. Under clear skies, they hiked down towards Windy Corner and dug up the cache they had left a couple…
Guide Dan Starr called in a post that was unfortunately very hard to understand, due to the challenges of communicating with satellites orbiting to the south when climbing at extreme northern latitudes… The team moved up and took up residence at 11,200′ in a beautiful basin, lined with steep snow slopes and sheer ice cliffs.…
Lead Guide Caitlin Hague called in from the 7,800′ camp on the Kahiltna Glacier. Early this morning the team awoke, ate breakfast and carried roughly half their supplies up the glacier about 3.5 miles to an elevation of about 10,200′. They dug a deep hole in the snow and buried their supplies, so as to…
Jacqueline Heller called in a nice update from Camp 1, located at 7,800′ on the broad Kahiltna Glacier. It sounds like they had a great day, hiking up glacier in the shade that constitutes nighttime on Denali just two days before the summer solstice. They departed at about 1 am, and hiked down the Southeast…
On Wednesday, June 17th, a small group of climbers met in Anchorage, AK to join a team of Mountain Trip guides for an attempt to climb the highest peak in North America. Denali rises 20,320′ above the not-too-distant sea. Located close to the Arctic Circle, it is famous for presenting climbers with extreme cold and…