Team leader Durny called this afternoon to report that the team is safe and sound and enjoying the abundant oxygen in Anchorage. The team had an extra day at Base Camp, due to weather conditions, but the skies cleared and they were able to fly out this morning. It sounds like they assisted our air…
After a long day descending from 17,200ft, the team has finally returned to base camp. They woke up to snow at base camp, and will be spending the night there, but hope to fly out the next morning. Great job Alpenglow Team! recording
They guys beat a trail down the mountain yesterday after their summit day and traveled through the night all the way to base camp. They checked in this morning with the folks at Talkeetna Air Taxi who will send a plane for them as soon the weather allows. It’s a cloudy and rainy morning in…
The guys are on the summit of Denali! It’s a pretty good day and they are moving really well up at over 20,000ft. They’ll turn around and head back down to high camp for the night. Congratulations guys! Here’s the call from the top. recording
The team moved up from the 14,200 ft basin up to their high camp at 17,200 ft today in beautiful and relatively warm weather. They are moving strong and hope to head for the summit tomorrow morning if everyone is feeling well after their first night sleeping up over 17k feet. Here’s the call from…
Today was a planned rest and acclimatization day for the team. Climbing a mountain as high as Denali requires climbers to be disciplined and methodical in their rate of ascent. Fit climbers could pretty easily just keep on moving up the mountain day after day, but the decreasing barometric pressure at each higher elevation can…
Team leader Durny called in the trip report tonight. It was a beautiful, clear day today at 14 Camp, and the team enjoyed a leisurely rest day. It’s certain that the climbers spent some part of the day thinking about the move to High Camp, which is the plan for tomorrow. Fingers crossed for a…
Durny called in to update us that the team carried loads up the fixed lines, which run up the steepest part of the West Buttress route. They started out in what sounded like HOT conditions, which seems odd, considering they are on a glacier at over 14-15,000′! The sun can be intense up on Denali,…
Lead guide Durny called in from the broad basin at 14,200′ after the team did what is called a “single carry” up to camp. Rather than carrying roughly half of their total kit and caching it below camp as many teams choose to do, they packed up all their food, fuel and supplies and carried…
Durny called in from a very snowy Camp 2 at 11,200′. 20″ of snow fell on the team, with winds gusting to 30 mph. The team spent a lot of time digging their tents out of the continuously billowing snow. Digging sessions were interspersed with eating, sleeping, reading and sessions of listening to music. Here…