Lead guide Scott Woolums says good morning from sunny 14,200′! The May 30 Denali West Buttress team is resting at Camp 3 after caching extra food and supplies below High Camp. They are waiting on a team member to regain their strength and feel up to the steep push up to High Camp, which is…
Congratulations to the entire May 30 team, all of whom are standing on the top of Denali. They passed the phone around on this crystal clear day and each climber was able to add their thoughts and shout outs to loved ones. GREAT JOB TEAM!!! recording
The team is holding at High Camp, watching the weather carefully for break in the wind. Yoshiko reports high winds overnight, so the team plans to rest, hydrate and enjoy the views at High Camp for the day. Fingers crossed for good weather tomorrow! Note the snow walls erected around camp. This is to protect…
Today the team is holding at high camp due to the weather. Ian called in this morning and was reporting significant winds in camp despite the favorable weather forecast. This team has seen all types of weather on their trip but, the combination of below zero temperature and high winds make a summit bid impossible…
Peter Lewis called in a morning report from the May 30th team. They are about to pack up and head up toward High Camp at 17,200′! The team has spent a couple of bonus days at 14,200′, waiting for the weather to improve and the winds to abate sufficiently to allow them to head upwards. …
The weather has finally improved and the May 30th team has moved up from 14,000 ft basin where they’ve been waiting it out for several days. They are excited to be climbing again, and had a beautiful day to climb up out of the basin, and onto the spectacular and exposed ridge that takes them…
Lead guide Ian Nicholson called in from 14,200′ with an update on the May 30 team. Today was clear and it was the first time the team could see neighboring Mount Hunter. Despite the clear weather, the winds were quite high at camp and were raging at higher elevations. The wind was much too high…
It sounds like the team has been enjoying the relative comfort of 14 Camp located in the beautiful Genet Basin. In between napping, reading, and eating, the team has been practicing skills they will use to ascend the upper mountain. The route above 14 Camp climbs 1,400′ of moderately steep snow before reaching the steepest…
Lowell and Peter called in from the large basin camp at 14,200′ on the West Buttress. Today, the team dropped down to 13,500′ to pick up the cache of supplies that they had buried a few days ago. This is sort of an active rest day, as it only takes about 20 minutes to drop…
Our guide Karl Welter called in from the basin camp at 11,200′ with an update on the May 30th Team’s progress. Today, they dropped back down to retrieve their cache of supplies, which they had buried at about 10,200′ two days ago. The weather and snowfall made what is traditionally a pretty easy day into…