Chris Silkwood called in via a not-great satellite phone connection. The team is at 7,800′ on the Kahiltna Glacier and today, they carried food and supplies higher on the glacier as they continue their acclimatization process. Today, they climbed up about 2500′ to the head of the Kahiltna. They dug a deep pit in the…
Karl Welter and Simen Haare called in a nice report, four days into their climb. They have had some deep snow to contend with in the past days, and today they broke trail through a meter of new snow to retrieve their cache from below Camp 2. Today was what we call a “backcarry day.” …
The team made it to Base Camp today! The weather did not look super promising earlier in the day, but as the afternoon approached, the clouds parted and they took advantage of a brief window in the rainy Talkeetna weather to fly to the Southeast Fork of the Kahiltna Glacier. Climbers come to Alaska from…
Mountain Trip guide Fischer Hazen called in from Camp 1 at 7800 feet on the broad Kahiltna Glacier today. The team took a weather day today, as strong winds and blowing snow made visibility challenging. The 7800′ camp is kind of a tough one, as you cannot see much of the route above, and with…
Pete Linkroum called in with an unfortunately abbreviated update. The satellites conveying his transmission passed out of reach before he got too far into his call. The team spent today looking at snow falling and unable to move up to their next camp, due to the stormy weather. They took advantage of the day to…
Lead Guide Sebastian Grau called in after the team pushed though strong headwind to reach the site of their Camp 1 on this West Rib of Denali expedition. Regardless of how you climb the Rib (alpine or expedition style), you have to head up the broad Kahiltna Glacier. The Kahiltna is the longest glacier in…
Erich Nell called in from the team’s new home for the next few days – the broad, Genet Basin at 14,200′ (4328 m). The team moved up today, passing the cache they had left previously at 13,500′, and continuing another hour to what is often referred to as the Advanced Base Camp for the West…
Lead Guide Aaron Diamond called in from Camp 1 on the Kahiltna Glacier today. The team packed up all their supplies, gear and camp early in the morning and departed Base Camp. The route starts off with a descent of about 600′, as the tributary Southeast Fork of the Kahiltna feeds down into the main…
Lead Guide Sebastian “Seba” Grau called in from the Southeast Fork of the Kahiltna Glacier. Seba and the rest of the team all flew into the Alaska Range early this afternoon. The team is excited to hit the trail early tomorrow morning, when they will pack up all their food, supplies, camping and climbing gear…
Mountain Trip is excited to welcome two climbers to Alaska who will challenge themselves on a difficult and technical route on Denali. The West Rib route climbs steeply almost 9000′ from deep in the Northeast Fork of the Kahiltna Glacier, to just shy of the summit of the mountain. This qualifies as what climbers call,…