Dear Friends and Family, It’s been a pleasure sharing the journey up and down the West Buttress of Denali along with the team consisting of fellow guides Logan, Kakiko, and the climbers Linda, Mike, Katsuya and Mark, all returning safely with all fingers and toes. Denali never gets easier and is always a challenge…
Mark from the May 13 Denali West Buttress expedition (“Yoshi and the Yetis”), who reached the summit a couple of days ago, called in an update from Base Camp, awaiting their flight out of the range. The team descended over 13,000′ down from the summit of Denali, picking up a cache along the way, making…
Congratulations to the climbers of our May 13, 2019 Denali expedition! Linda Wohlgemuth, Katsuya Fukunaga, and Mark Kitchenman stood atop North America today, accompanied by Mountain Trip guides Yoshiko Miazaki-Back, Logan Demarcus and Kakiko Ramos-Leon. They pushed hard through a variety of weather to reach the summit of Denali. Unfortunately, the team lost the satellite…
Lead guide Yoshiko reports that the team made the big move up to High Camp (17,200′). It was a cold, windy, snowy day but the team pushed through and they are settling in their fortified tent camp. Over the next 24 hours the team will be resting, hydrating, and watching the weather carefully as they…
The team is waiting out the weather at the 14,200 ft camp today. Yoshiko called in and said it’s currently snowing with 35 mph winds and they are expecting more high winds tonight. They are happy to be hunkered down at the 14 camp with a bunch of other Mountain Trip teams waiting for the…
Yoshiko called in for the May 13th team this evening. They are watching the snow and wind and hoping to get a chance to move to high camp soon! Here’s Yoshi from Camp 3
Climber Linda called in a very kind and encouraging update on the May 13 Denali West Buttress team. They spent the day waiting out weather at Camp Three at 14,200′,and gave some accolades to their guides. The team is waiting for better weather to make the push to High Camp. Here’s Linda! recording
Mountain Trip lead guide Yoshiko called in an update on the May 13 West Buttress team, who took a convenient rest day just as the weather on the upper mountain began to enter into a low pressure and high wind system. The team spent the majority of the day building up and fortifying the snow…
Guide Yoshiko called in an update on the May 13 West Buttress team, from Camp Three at 14,200′. The team backcarried to retrieve their cache at around 13,400′ near Windy Corner, and also placed a high cache up on the ridge at around 16,300′, above the steep headwall above camp. This puts them into position…
Climber Linda Wohglemuth called in an update for the May 13 West Buttress Team, from Camp Three at 14,200′ on the mountain. The team backcarried to retrieve their cache below Windy Corner and settled in for another night at 14-Camp. Here’s Linda–unfortunately the update gets cut off fairly quickly due to poor signal. recording