June 4, 2022
Lucy calls in from Camp 3 last night. The team backcarried to Windy Corner yesterday. The dropped down from camp at 14,200' (4328m) to their Windy Corner cache at 13,200' (4023m). After digging up their cache, they put all their supplies in their backpacks and climbed back up to Camp
June 4, 2022
The team took a rest day yesterday after caching on the ridge the day before. No significant updates! The team left a great voicemail detailing all their favorite parts of the expedition so far. It sounds like the team is doing really well. I am sure they spent today hydrating,
June 4, 2022
The team was able to put in a cache at 16,200' (4937m) yesterday! They started out their day climbing over 1,000' to the bergschrund below the fixed lines. A bergschrund is where the start of a glacier meets steep ice and the sub sequential crevasse that forms here sloughs away
June 3, 2022
The team was able to move up the fixed lines yesterday and make a new home at High Camp! As reported, the team will be able to decide now when to make their summit bid. Denali has seen a long lasting warm and sunny high pressure system which has allowed
June 3, 2022
Lead guide Ty Guarino let us know that the team successfully made it to Denali Basecamp yesterday! Let the adventure begin! Talkeetna sits at 348' (106m). This time of year it is full spring there, everything is lush and green. Talkeetna sits literally at the end of the road to
June 3, 2022
Michael updates us after some snow camp cheesecake! Teams on Denali are experiencing warm and sunny weather in this extended high pressure system. Today the team left Camp 2 at 11,200' (3413m) and descended to their cache site at 10,200' (3108m). They dug up their supplies, loaded them into their
June 3, 2022
Corell calls in to report the team has moved up to Camp 3! Getting to Camp 3 is always an exciting and somewhat pivotal point of the expedition. Many climbers congregate here (there is likely somewhere around 200 people at this camp right now) as they wait for their opportunity
June 3, 2022
The team called in from the top of North America yesterday evening!!! Congratulations to the team! We did get a report that the entire team made it back to High Camp last night after their summit. We are so excited for them and happy to hear that they are on
June 2, 2022
Rob and Nathan update us from Camp 3 last night. Thanks Nathan for giving us a run down of what it's really like to climb on an expedition team! We try our best to convey on our dispatches what teams are doing on the mountain and how it all works.
June 2, 2022
Yesterday the team packed up camp at Camp 1 (7,800′ 2377m) and lugged all their gear first up Ski Hill which rises about 1,200′ above Camp 1. From here the team experiences some rolling terrain back up their cache site at 10,200′ (3108m). They continue climbing past the cache site
