Mountain Trip guide Jason Denley sent in some amazing panoramic photos from the June 1, which will give friends and family back at home an idea of the vistas that surround the West Buttress Route in the Alaska Range. Enjoy!
Omri Gildor called in with an update on the Denali Upper Rib team, who have progressed from Camp 2 at 11,200′ up to Camp 3 at 14,200′. Guides Taylor Pyle, DaOngchhu Sherpa and Brady Deal took a cache of supplies up to High Camp and checked on the Mountain Trip collective cache. Omri, Ephi and…
Mountain Trip lead guide Sean McManamy called in with an update on the June 15 Denali West Buttress expedition, currently camped at 11,200′. The team awoke to about six inches of fresh snow outside of their tent and fairly cloudy weather. 11-Camp typically receives a good amount of snow as it is positioned right in…
Mountain Trip guide Ben Adkison called in on behalf of the June 5 Denali West Buttress expedition, most of whom made their summit attempt yesterday. Ben said that his half of the June 5 Denali team, Greg Johnson, Newall Hunter and John Ladd left High Camp and headed for the summit of Denali at around…
Mountain Trip climber Jaahnavi Sriperambuduru called in with an update on the June 22 Denali expedition, who just arrived to the Kahiltna Glacier yesterday evening and set up camp. She, under the tutelage of guide Fischer Hazen, learned how to properly set up Mountain Trip’s Mountain Hardware Trango 3 Tent, which will serve as the…
Climbers from both the June 5 and the June 11 Denali West Buttress Expeditions called with ecstatic hellos and shout-outs to report that they had reached the highest point in North America!! Their visibility from the summit was somewhat obscured by clouds, but they had little to no wind for their ascent and mild weather.…
On Wednesday, June 22nd, a small group of climbers met in Anchorage, AK to join a team of Mountain Trip guides for an attempt to climb the highest peak in North America. Denali rises 20,320′ above the not-too-distant sea. Located close to the Arctic Circle, it is famous for presenting climbers with extreme cold and…
Mountain Trip guide Ian Nicholson called in on behalf of the June 11 Denali team, who are planning on making a push for the SUMMIT today via the West Buttress Route! All climbers on the June 11 team, including Nimrod and Yftah Sheffer, David Porter, Remo Bernhardsgrütter and Blaine Yates, will be heading for the…
Mountain Trip guide Robert “Durny” Durnell called in with an update on the June 16 West Buttress Expedition on Denali. Last night the team made their cache at about 10,000′ on the notoriously windy Kahiltna Pass above Ski Hill. The team was undoubtedly tired out by carrying and pulling the heavy loads up a couple…
Lead guide Ben Adkison called in with an update on the June 5 team from High Camp on the West Buttress Route, at 17,200′. They utilized yesterday as an additional rest and weather day, to mentally and physically prepare themselves to push the approximately 3,000′ of vertical to the top of the Great One and…