Thank you Brandon, Dawn, Will, Sam & Josh for an excellent trip. To me a successful trip ends with people in high spirits about what happened and excited about what will happen next, and this Denali trip did. While we were out there, we enjoyed good weather, a classic route and a few weeks in…
Hiking through the twilight of the Alaskan night, both the June 23 and 24 Teams are almost back at the airstrip. They dropped down from the 17,200′ Camp and retrieved their caches left at each of the three camps they passed. The teams have made good progress on their descent, hiking through the night to…
Will, Sam, Josh, Sean, and Brian from the June 23rd Team are on the summit of Denali!!! Each team member of the June 23rd Team took a turn on the satellite phone before passing it over to the June 24th Team. Unfortunately, we lost the signal before the latter climbers had much opportunity to speak.…
They awoke to another beautiful day at high camp this morning and they went for the summit. They left this morning, and should be approaching the top this afternoon. The teams all reported beautiful weather up high on Denali today and hope to have a spectacular day at the top of North America! We’ll keep…
Well, their patience paid off and the team had a beautiful, sunny day for the move to High Camp. The climb to High Camp is one of the most enjoyable days of climbing on the expedition because for the most part you are climbing on top of the ridge, weaving in and out of rocks…
The team is monitoring the weather closely, hoping for a period of a few days of stable weather in which to continue their ascent. They are being patient, and 14 Camp is not such a bad place to be while they wait for the weather to settle. There are lots of other teams at 14…
It was a weather day for the June 23rd team, so they rested, relaxed and hydrated in preparation for the move up to high camp. Brian reports that the team is monitoring the weather closely, as there is an approaching storm. In the meantime, they plan to feast on a pizza dinner (!!). Here’s Brian:…
The team is ready to move up to high camp, but the weather today didn’t cooperate. It was a windy day up high on the mountain and they’ll need some better weather to move to high camp. Everyone is doing great and ready to go when they get the chance.
The team enjoyed a break in the weather today and took advantage of the nice day by climbing up out of the 14,000 ft basin and caching food and fuel up near high camp in preparation to move on up. They are doing great and hoping for some nice weather so they can move up…
The weather has come back into the Alaska Range, with wind and snow at nearly all elevations of the mountain today. The June 23 team is hunkered down at Camp 3 (14,200 ft) and waiting for things to improve so they can continue their climb. Today they may see a break in the weather and…