After a great summit day, the Rib Team motored down from High Camp to Base Camp in approximately 1.5 days and they are now in Talkeetna. Enjoying a large (!) hamburger and a beer, I suspect. Great job, Seth, and you earned it. Here’s Pablo: recording
Seth, Juliana and Pablo reached the summit and are safely back in High Camp!!! They took advantage of a break in the weather and pushed hard to make it up and down in just 9.5 hours. They encountered light wind and even a couple of welcomed breaks of sunshine en route to the top of…
A very happy Pablo Puruncajas called in from the 17,200′ High Camp to let us know that he, Seth and Juliana are taking a shot at the summit today! They awoke to calm conditions at camp, although there were signs of wind up above. They decided to take a hike uphill to about 18,000′ at…
Pablo called from our West Rib Team. They took advantage of a slight break in the weather to push hard for High Camp on the West Buttress. Located at 17,200′, High Camp is a tough place when the wind blows hard, and Pablo reports that the wind has been blowing hard! recording
Hi Everyone! We wanted to give you a heads up that for the next 72 hours, we might not be able to edit the auto-posted “audio posts” that are generated when our climbing teams call in dispatches from the field. A brief lapse in our website management might result in us not having staff in…
We received some photos and a report from our Lead Guide Sebastian Grau, whose team spent a tough night at 14,200′ last night. Seba reported winds of 60-80 mph throughout the night, which destroyed a neighboring guided team’s kitchen tent and made for a rough night’s sleep. Our team worked very hard yesterday, cutting 20-40…
With a very detailed installment of “How The Mountain Turns,” Lead Guide Pablo Puruncajas called in with an update on the resourcefulness of our West Rib team, in the face of really tough weather and conditions. Heavy snow and high winds caused the team to reevaluate their planned route. The approach to the Wets Rib…
Guide Pablo Parunjacas called in with an update on the Mountain Trip West Rib Expedition. Due to poor weather and more storm systems in the forecast, they have unfortunately chosen to abandon their original objective of the West Rib. Seth will be continuing on up the West Buttress route for the remainder of their expedition,…
Mountain Trip guide Pablo Parunjacas called in with an update on the Denali West Rib expedition, who are currently camped at 14,200 ft. Today they completed a single-carry of supplies to cache up high at around 15,000 ft., past a ridgeline aptly named Windy Corner (which Pablo said was certainly living up to its name).…
Mountain Trip guide Pablo Parunjacas checked in from camp at 11,000 ft. on the West Rib route on Denali, their Camp 2. While the team was hoping to carry supplies up higher on their route, the weather kept them in camp for a rest day. The day prior, the team had a successful five-hour climb…