Gidi Gottleib called in from the site of our June 2nd team’s Camp 2 on their way up the West Buttress of Denali. Today was a fairly hard day, with a couple of big hills for the climbers to negotiate. Despite the late night the day before, when the guides helped rescue a solo climber…
We’ll continue our regularly-scheduled trip report for the June 2 team below, but’s definitely worth noting here that the team’s Mountain Trip guides (Bill Allen, Karl Welter and Erin Laine) were extensively involved in an intense crevasse rescue effort, to which they were the first on-scene. Here’s the official press release from the National Park…
Climber Matt Foote called in the first update from the glacier for the June 2 Denali West Buttress Team! They flew into Base Camp on the Kahiltna Glacier at 7,200′ in the late afternoon, where their Mountain Trip guides cooked dinner and reviewed crevasse rescue, glacier travel, and taught everyone how to properly rig up…
WELCOME JUNE 2 TEAM! Our 2017 Denali season is in full swing, and so far two Mountain Trip teams have reached the summit and highest point in North America, after enduring some of the worst storm cycles the Alaska Range could dish out. These seemingly unending storms prevented many teams from moving up…