The June 21 Team is headed back to Base Camp. Lead Guide Eli Potter called in to report that it was a long, hard descent to 14 Camp from High Camp, but the team made it and they spent the afternoon napping in 14 Camp. The plan is to wait until evening, then make the…
Lead Guide Eli Potter called in on behalf of the Gustavo Ziller Seven Summits TV team after they made a summit bid this morning. The forecast looked good and they awoke early, brewed up and hit the trail. The crew made pretty good time up the steep and formidable Autobahn (the 1000′ rising traverse that…
Eli called in from high camp on the West Buttress route of Denali this evening at 17,200 ft. They moved up from a camp on the ridge at 16,300 ft, so it was a short day and they are hoping to be rested and ready to go to the summit tomorrow. It was a beautiful…
Guide Eli Potter called in from a unique camp on the route, precariously and scenically placed below Washburn’s Thumb at around 16,000′. This is not a typical spot for Mountain Trip teams to set up camp, but as a small team, the group has some flexibility. Since Gustavo was dealing with a bit of a…
Mountain Trip guide Eli Potter called in an update for the Brazilian Seven Summits television show team, following Gustavo Ziller’s quest to stand on the summit of the highest mountain on each continent. The team spent a rest day yesterday at camp at 14,200′ in “ping pong ball” conditions–meaning that both the sky and the…
The June 21 Team is cruising up the mountain, today moving a load of equipment and supplies up to a cache site at 16400′. Lead Guide Eli reports light snow, cloudy and warm conditions on the route. It’s always exciting for a team to get on the upper mountain and it sounds like the June…
It was a rest day today for the June 21st Team after the single carry yesterday from 11 Camp. It sounds like the team had good weather (moderate temperatures and low wind) for the move around Windy Corner up into the Genet basin. After a leisurely morning the team made the short trek over to…
The team woke to strong winds and snow this morning. They relaxed and had a nice breakfast, the winds calmed and the snow dissipated, and then they packed up a load of equipment and supplies and headed up. They cached their load of supplies at 13,700′ by digging a large, deep pit in the snow.…
Mountain Trip lead guide Eli Potter and guide Ryan Gould have just flown onto the glacier with a television crew, who are filming a show about the Seven Summits, and have joined Mountain Trip to film the Denali portion of the show. Brazillian filmmaker and mountaineer Gustavo Ziller and Gabriel Tarso, who will be operating…