A little garbled at the end, but the team is in their tents for the night at camp 2, 11k. This is the first camp at which they will start to feel the effects of altitude, mainly in a shortness of breath when moving around and shoveling. recording
Guide Sebastian Grau called in around quarter to 9pm AK time to do the daily check-in. Seba was in the cook tent; I could hear the stoves burning in the background melting snow into water. The rest of the expedition had gone to bed already after putting in a good day’s work breaking trail…
Here’s the call from Camp 1 after they returned from a day of trailbreaking through new snow up to their cache at 10,000 ft. recording
Lead guide Mike Burmeister called in to report that the team decided to stay in camp today. Although the clouds were nowhere to be seen, the wind decided to pick up in the morning, reaching an estimated 30mph. Yesterday’s move was a hard one and no one felt particularly excited to haul heavy packs into…
The team called in from Camp 1 this evening after a weather day due to high winds. It has been beautiful, and they are all doing great and looking forward to moving tomorrow. Click the link to listen to the call from the Kahiltna Glacier. recording
Yoshiko called in from the first Mountain Trip Denali expedition of the season. They flew in on the 23rd, right on schedule, and moved up to Camp 1 yesterday. Sounds like they were breaking trail most of the way for the 5 mile stretch from base camp to Camp 1. All is well up there,…
Mountain Trip has been synonymous with climbing Denali for decades and we are thrilled to launch or 39th season of guiding on the highest, coldest mountain in North America with the launch of our April 22 Denali Team! Yesterday, a diverse group of climbers congregated in Anchorage, Alaska to make their final preparations for an…
Hi everyone! Thanks for tuning into our blog and following the teams progress up and down the “big one”. We are all currently back in Anchorage enjoying our belly’s being full of delicious steaks and beer. To back track a little bit…after waiting out five days of high winds and accumulations of snow…
Everyone flew off the mountain last night back to the relative civilization of Talkeetna. They were all pretty tired after a long night of travel. It was a good effort by all the climbers, but the weather just never cooperated to allow them to reach the summit. We’ll get a good trip recap posted from…
They are all in base camp this morning and just waiting for flights now. They had a bit of a tedious journey down this morning, breaking trail in the new snow and pretty bad visibility early in the day, but they didn’t have too much problem with crevasses, and are happy to be in base…