Jacob has patiently waited for his team’s chance to attempt the summit, and has now judged the conditions worthy of an effort. The weather is partly cloudy but with very little wind. Every summit day is attempted with a ‘let’s just go have a look’ attitude, as conditions can rapidly change as the day goes…
Guide Jack McGee called in to give us an update on the May 20th Team. They moved up to high camp yesterday and are taking a planned rest and acclimatization day today. This is rather fortunate, as the weather is not great today, so they would have had to sit tight anyhow. It sounds like…
Jacob checked in, reported nothing much happening at high camp, which is just what they need. They are resting for their summit attempt, which will launch as soon as the weather lets them. If the visibility is good, many teams walk out to the edge of camp which sports a wicked view of Foraker, Hunter…
The entire team made it to high camp today, and they are happily tucked into their tents with hand warmers and hot water bottles. They earned their rest tonight- the move from 14 to 17.2 camp is a hard one, but everyone performed marvelously. They first climbed up about 1,400′ of snow slopes to reach…
Jacob and company carried loads up the fixed lines to 16,400′ today, and as before everyone reportedly did a great job, moving strong and efficiently. A guide team went a little further up the ridge to high camp in order to put a little extra food ahead of the group and to try to secure…
Jacob called in a couple of hours ago to report that the May 20th team is baking in the sun at 14,200′ (4328m). He said it was very hot and that it was a beautiful day without a wisp of breeze. They spent the day practicing some of the skills that they will need to…
The crew sounds great after enjoying a Thanksgiving dinner! They moved up from 11,200′ today, which is a long, hard push. They had to climb up and out of the basin in which they were camped and onto the first steep slopes of the route. They donned crampons and worked their way up two long…
We just heard about another accident on Denali that occurred last night. This was not a Mountain Trip team. All our climbers are doing fine at this time. Details are not clear at this time, but apparently four climbers roped together fell while descending from Denali Pass. Two of the climbers did not survive. We…
[audio:http://mountaintripdenali2011.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/audio-post-2011-05-26-04-16-47.mp3|titles=Audio Post] This post is a little garbled; 11 camp is notorious for making communication difficult. It sounds as if everything is going well, they cached around Windy Corner yesterday.