The team headed down the mountain today and they are back down at Camp 1 at 7,800 ft tonight. It was a hard decision to come down, but Mohammed hasn’t been feeling great and after consulting with our medical advisor and other doctors, they concluded that they better head down. Everyone is feeling the benefits…
Jesse called in for the evening dispatch from Camp 3 (14,200 ft) on Denali tonight. They had a day of rest and acclimatizing, trying to get everyone feeling strong and rested and ready to move up to high camp. Temperatures weren’t quite as cold last night, only -25 f… They are hanging in there with…
Lead guide Eli called in today from the 14,000 ft camp on Denali to report in for the Zahid brothers West Buttress expedition. They had a rest day today, acclimatizing and recovering from a -30 f (-34 c) night up high on Denali. It’s started off as a pretty cold season in the Alaska Range…
Our guide Jesse Wright called in from 14,200 feet (4328 m), the site of their Camp 3. This is a camp at which they will spend a number of nights, so it is often viewed as the “Advanced Base Camp” on the West Buttress route. The team departed Camp 2 at around noon, climbing up…
Lead Guide Eli Potter called in after a dinner of chicken sandwiches from the Zahid brothers’ camp for the past few nights at 11,200′ (3414 m). Today, they climbed back up to grab the cache they dropped a bit short of their intended cache site yesterday. High winds and firm conditions made them stop below…
Our guide Jesse Wright called in from the basin camp at 11,200′ (3413 m) today with an update on the Zahid brothers’ team. It has been very cold of late and the snow conditions above Camp 2 range from firm to hard ice. The team carried up a long, moderately steep hill that rises immediately…
Eli Potter called in another detailed post that was unfortunately cut off toward the end. Satellite communication in mountainous areas is challenging, when those mountains are close to the Arctic Circle, it gets even tougher. At Camp 2, there is a 1200′ (356 m) glaciated ridge that blocks the view to the south, where the…
Lead Guide Eli Potter called n from a really pretty Camp 2 at 11,200′ (3413 m) on the West Buttress route of Denali. The team slept in a bit, due to cool temperatures and thick snow and fog, only leaving Camp 1 at about 11:00 in the morning. Snow had covered most of their tracks…
Eli Potter called in another nice, detailed report this evening, after the team had a tough day pushing the route up the Kahiltna Glacier, through deep snow, to deposit their supplies at an elevation of about 10,000 feet (3048 m). There have not been too many climbers on the West Buttress thus far and it…
Lead Guide Eli Potter called in a nice post from Camp 1 at 7,800 feet (2377 m) at the juncture of the Kahiltna Glacier and the Northeast Fork of the Kahiltna. The team worked hard today, carrying heavy packs and pulling laden sleds five miles (8 km) up the glacier. They were graced with a…