Our third team of the season is headed up to fly into Denali later this afternoon. Our May 8th Team met in Anchorage yesterday and finalized their preparations for their attempt on the highest peak in North America. The team spent much of yesterday running errands in Anchorage, picking up last minute items and eating…
Bernd Horsman called in with the first audio post of our 2013 Denali season! Apparently, it has been quite chilly at night, and some of his call is about strategies they are devising to stay warm, as it was -14C (7F) in his tent this morning. Heck, that’s a balmy day on Denali!! Bernd’s…
Today is a clear and beautiful day in the Alaska Range. The team “made a carry” yesterday to roughly 10,200′ and buried a cache of equipment and food before descending back to the site of their Camp 1 at 7,800′ in the early afternoon. This technique is called “double carrying” between camps. It is an…
Our second Denali team of the season is on the move up the mountain! We apologize for the delay in posting, but we had a bit of a technical challenge that prevented us from posting recently. We will refer to this team as our “2013 May 5 West Buttress Team” and you can follow them…
Andy Forbes and his guides from Mountain Trip, Sean McManamy and Brian Muller flew into Kahiltna Base Camp today to begin their expedition on Denali. This is the first trip of the season and they were excited to get underway. They met in Anchorage yesterday for a gear check and briefing before heading to Talkeetna…
Marty, Kenny, and Denali hiked down to base camp last night. Kenny is doing better and it’s good to hear that they were able to get back down to base camp on their own power. They’ll get a flight out on a fixed wing flight this morning back to Talkeetna (weather permitting of course, but…
The team traveled through the night last night from Camp 2 at 11,000 ft down to base camp. It was a long final push, but they had relatively good conditions and they were motivated to get back to the world of hot showers and cheese burgers. They spent several nervous hours at base camp watching…
The Honey Badger team is split up now, but most of the team is at base camp this morning and waiting for a flight to Talkeetna as soon as the weather allows. Marty and Denali have remained up at the 14,200ft W. Buttress camp with Kenny who is having some medical issues and waiting for…
It continued to blow and snow up high on Denali yesterday, and the team finally decided to pack it up and head down. It has been an extended period of terrible weather up high on the mountain (there have been several records broken for cold and rainfall in AK this summer…) They descended to Camp…
The June 24 WB expedition is back in town! We made it back to Anchorage this afternoon after a late-night extra-special TAT glacier pick-up from Paul Roderick and his Turbine Otter “0 Papa Romeo” yesterday. We, that is the remaining strongholds of our original team, Matt Foote and Karin Schoeman, and Adam and I. We…