Mountain Trip lead guide Brian Kramp called in a final update on Shan’s May 28 Denali West Buttress Expedition, who have left the Alaska Range and have returned to Anchorage to go their separate ways. While the team unfortunately did not make the summit due to poor weather, we would still likely to extend our…
Taylor called in the team report tonight from 14 Camp. The team woke to snowy, cloudy conditions and they opted to remain in 14 Camp for another day. Taylor reports that the weather appears to be clearing and the team is excited to make the move up to High Camp. Here’s Taylor: recording
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Mountain Trip guide Taylor Pyle called in an update on Shan’s May 28 Denali West Buttress team, who are camped at 14,200′ for their fourth day now, waiting on better weather conditions to move up the route. The team has served as a sort of welcome committee to other Mountain Trip teams, both those arriving…
Guide Brian Kramp called in with an update on Shan’s May 28 Denali West Buttress expedition, who are eating well and resting at 14-Camp with several other Mountain Trip teams. Due to weather, they are taking another rest day at camp, staying busy fortifying their snow walls, digging out their tents and most likely, catching…
Lead Guide Brian Kramp called form the site of Team Shan’s new home for a few nights, at 14,200′ (4328 m), in the vast Genet Basin. This basin is bordered to the west by the massive West Buttress, which carves the skyline and drops down in a series of steep ice slopes and dark rocky…
Lead guide Brian Kramp reports that the team carried a load of equipment and supplies up to a cache at 13700′. It sounds like the day went well and Brian was pleased with the group’s effort. The team was rewarded with a pizza dinner when they returned to camp, after caching! The plan is to…
Mountain Trip guide Brian Kramp called in for Shan’s May 28 Denali West Buttress Trip who are camped out at 11,200′. They spent yesterday “back carrying,” or hiking back down to retrieve their cache, and they now have all of their gear with them back up at 11,200′. Next, today (6/6) they plan to carry…
Guide Brian Kramp called in a short update for Shan’s May 28 Denali West Buttress expedition. Yesterday, June 4, the team took a rest day at 11,200′-Camp after a strenuous day moving up from Camp One to Camp Two via the infamous Ski Hill, that can feel as hot as a frying pan with strong…
Mountain Trip lead guide Brian Kramp called in for the May 28 private Denali West Buttress Expedition, who with the assistance of guide Eli Potter who is moving back up the mountain to meet his team, made the move from Camp One at 7,800′ to Camp Two at 11,200. Shan also comes on to say…