Paul called in this evening with the update from the DSUSA team. They moved up to Camp 1 on the Kahiltna glacier today hauling all of their gear, food/fuel, and equipment in their packs and in sleds they hauled behind. It’s always a tough day, which Paul described as grueling, but they are enjoying the…
Klaus called in the team report tonight. Despite lots of new snow, the team was able to move a load of equipment and supplies up to a cache site at 11,000′. It sounds like it was a good day, but hard work breaking trail through the new snow. I’m certain the pretty blue sky and…
Lead guide Eli called in today from the 14,000 ft camp on Denali to report in for the Zahid brothers West Buttress expedition. They had a rest day today, acclimatizing and recovering from a -30 f (-34 c) night up high on Denali. It’s started off as a pretty cold season in the Alaska Range…
Erich called in from the May 4 Denali West Buttress team this evening to say they are all doing well and woke up to 3 feet of new snow! They moved up to camp at 9,800 ft yesterday and plan to move up to the 11,000 ft camp tomorrow. They’ll be breaking trail and working…
Paul called in from the base camp of Denali on the South East fork of the Kahiltna glacier reporting that they were all in camp and enjoying their first evening in the Alaska Range! After a day of waiting out the weather in Talkeetna, they were excited to get onto the mountain and get settled…
Our guide Jesse Wright called in from 14,200 feet (4328 m), the site of their Camp 3. This is a camp at which they will spend a number of nights, so it is often viewed as the “Advanced Base Camp” on the West Buttress route. The team departed Camp 2 at around noon, climbing up…
Lead Guide Eli Potter called in after a dinner of chicken sandwiches from the Zahid brothers’ camp for the past few nights at 11,200′ (3414 m). Today, they climbed back up to grab the cache they dropped a bit short of their intended cache site yesterday. High winds and firm conditions made them stop below…
Gustav Deuss called in a couple of updates from Camp 1 after he and the team carried a load of supplies up the Kahiltna earlier in the day. We’ll post them both, as it’s nice to hear from him. By the good-natured ribbing in the second one, I think they’re having a good time! Denali…
Mountain trip guide Jason Denley called in from 7,800′ on the Kahiltna Glacier, after the team carried all their equipment and supplies about five miles up glacier from Base Camp today. Jason reports great conditions on the lower glacier, meaning a firm trail and low crevasse hazard, so the guys were psyched! After establishing camp,…
Our guide Jesse Wright called in from the basin camp at 11,200′ (3413 m) today with an update on the Zahid brothers’ team. It has been very cold of late and the snow conditions above Camp 2 range from firm to hard ice. The team carried up a long, moderately steep hill that rises immediately…