Hello everyone and thank you for following our expedition. First of all I wanted to say thank you to all of the members of our expedition. This was a group that worked very hard together as a team. Although we did have some weather days in town before we flew out and at 11,200’camp we…
The June 19 team is heading down the mountain tonight, and if the weather cooperates they hope to be in base camp tomorrow. It’s been an almost perfect trip for them, weather-wise, so let’s hope their luck holds out. They hope to be traveling down thru the lower Kahiltna glacier during the early morning hours…
Jacob just called in from the summit of Denali! They had to break trail through some pretty deep snow at times today, so it was a lot of work, but they made it. It is a beautiful evening up there, no wind and blue skies above. A great way to celebrate Independence day. Meerie turned…
Jacob called this morning to say they were finishing a bit of breakfast and packing up to try for the summit. The weather has improved this morning, and they are going to give it a try. We hope to hear from them on the summit late this afternoon. They’ll try to call from the top,…
They had a day of rest and acclimatization today at 17,200 ft while they watched the snow fall. It was a stormy day, but not miserable for our crew. They’ll be ready to try for the summit as soon as the weather breaks for them. We wish them luck with the weather, it’s been a…
Kelly called in from high camp after moving up on a reasonably nice day. They were settling in this evening melting snow for water and making some soup and dinner. Everyone did great today, and they are excited to be up at 17,200 ft. Click below to listen to Kelly’s call from high camp. [audio:http://mountaintrip.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/audio-post-2011-07-03-02-44-11.mp3|titles=Audio…
Meerie called in this evening after a nice rest day. They are all doing great, and hoping to move to high camp tomorrow! She say’s hello to her family, and that she is doing well. The quality of the call was much better tonight. Here’s Meerie’s call. [audio:http://mountaintrip.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/audio-post-2011-07-02-05-05-32.mp3|titles=Audio Post]
Meerie called in this evening from the 14,200 ft camp after climbing up to over 16,000 ft on the ridge today. It sounds like they are doing great and had a pretty nice day up high on Denali today. They are planning on taking a rest/acclimatization day tomorrow before pushing on up the mountain again.…
The team spent a good portion of the day today practicing the skills they’ll need for the steeper climbing they will encounter tomorrow on their climb up to 16,400 ft. They practiced techniques for climbing on a fixed line, and how to use the climbing anchors that the guides will be placing in the snow. …
The weather wasn’t perfect today, but much improved, and the team was able to move up to Camp 3 at the 14,000 ft basin. They are excited to be moving up, and seeing some blue skies. They’ll be settling in to this camp for at least 4 nights to acclimate and carry some loads up…