Lead Guide Eli Potter called in on behalf of the Gustavo Ziller Seven Summits TV team after they made a summit bid this morning. The forecast looked good and they awoke early, brewed up and hit the trail. The crew made pretty good time up the steep and formidable Autobahn (the 1000′ rising traverse that…
Eli called in from high camp on the West Buttress route of Denali this evening at 17,200 ft. They moved up from a camp on the ridge at 16,300 ft, so it was a short day and they are hoping to be rested and ready to go to the summit tomorrow. It was a beautiful…
Lead Guide Brian Muller called in from the summit of Denali! The team arrived on the summit a bit after 5:30 pm Alaska Daylight Time with all five climbers and the three Mountain Trip guides. They made great time heading up during a beautiful day. Congratulations to all the climbers!!! Michael Fahrenkamp Wui Kin Chin…
Josh Garner checked in after a well-deserved late morning of sleeping in at High Camp on the West Buttress. The team had a long day as they made their way up to the summit of Denali and back down to camp. They enjoyed a clear, beautiful day on the top of the tallest mountain in…
Congratulations to our friends from Indonesia! Mathilda Dwi Lestari, Fransiska Dimitri and Jimmy Turnakaka reached the top of North America, when they climbed onto the 20,310 foot (6190 m) summit of Denali last night. Accompanied by Mountain Trip guides Josh Garner, Kristin Arnold and J. Ricardo (Kakiko) Ramos-Leon, the team climbed from the 17,200 foot…
Guide Eli Potter called in from a unique camp on the route, precariously and scenically placed below Washburn’s Thumb at around 16,000′. This is not a typical spot for Mountain Trip teams to set up camp, but as a small team, the group has some flexibility. Since Gustavo was dealing with a bit of a…
Our team of climbers joining us from Indonesia are headed to the summit of Denali! They are currently at Denali Pass, a low point between the taller South Summit of Denali and the North summit. They just climbed up through a notorious stretch of the West Buttress route known in the dark humor of Alaskan…
Mountain Trip guide Brian Muller called in an update from 14,200′, where the June 19 West Buttress took a rest day yesterday. While surrounded by low visibility and light snow that obscured the fixed lines up the headwall out of camp, the team took the day to further acclimate, rest, and prepare their mountaineering kits…
Mountain Trip guide Eli Potter called in an update for the Brazilian Seven Summits television show team, following Gustavo Ziller’s quest to stand on the summit of the highest mountain on each continent. The team spent a rest day yesterday at camp at 14,200′ in “ping pong ball” conditions–meaning that both the sky and the…
Mountain Trip guide Josh Garner June 17 Indonesian West Buttress team, who at the time of the call were waiting out low visibility and blowing snow at High Camp on the route, perched at 17,200′. The weather has continued to clear in the Alaska Range and the forecast looks promising for the team to head…