June 1, 2019
Mountain Trip guide Fischer Hazen called in another quick update from High Camp for the May 19 team, still happy, healthy and playing the waiting game with the weather and winds up high. Not much has changed, but the team wanted to report that they are still healthy and doing
June 1, 2019
Mountain Trip guide Jesse Yon called in an update for the May 24 team, who was wrapping up their second rest day at Camp Two, 11,200'. The team spent the day catching up on sleep, replenishing calories and gambling their snacks as wind and snow prevented them from moving up
June 1, 2019
The May 20 team called in an update from Camp Three at 14,200' (4238m), after a rest day. They are planning to pack up camp tomorrow and push up to High Camp at 17,200' (5242m). They will climb up the steepest part of the route, a section called The Headwall,
June 1, 2019
Jason Swan called in from the May 17th team. They are nestled in at the 17,200' High Camp, awaiting a break in the series of low pressure systems that have kept them from making a summit bid thus far. They have plenty of time, and are in good spirits; they
June 1, 2019
Keeping things comical, as they have throughout the trip, climber Eric Baurenschmidt called in on behalf of "Team Dank Sauce," who spent the day eating Pringles, stomping out the snowy runway, and waiting in Denali Base Camp Limbo for the planes to start arriving to bring them back out to
June 1, 2019
Mountain Trip guide Chris Cullaz called in an update from the May 21 West Buttress team, who enjoyed a rest day yesterday at 14,200' to maximize their acclimatization before moving higher on the route. Today the team plans to move up to High Camp at 17,200'. The weather outlook for
May 31, 2019
Guide Jason Denley called in an update after a nighttime descent down to Base Camp, a long, midnight sun-lit push that drops over 13,000' in vertical from the summit back down to 7,200'. Unfortunately, the weather has prevented them from catching a ride with Talkeetna Air Taxi back to civilization,
May 31, 2019
Guide Nicole Lawton called in an update from the May 19 team, still waiting on the weather at High Camp, and eating plenty of snacks. Once again the team awoke to high winds streaming off the summit ridge above camp, and decided to wait for better conditions to make their
May 31, 2019
This update from the May 20 team is a bit hard to hear, but we know that the team spent their day caching above the fixed lines, at around on the route up to High Camp. They plan on taking a rest day on Sunday, June 2, before they push
May 31, 2019
Once again the team awoke to high winds streaming off the summit ridge above camp, and decided to wait for better conditions to make their summit push. The weather forecast is suggesting a promising weather window on Monday and Tuesday, with the winds diminishing significantly and dry weather predicted. Here's
