May 12, 2016
It was a rest day at Mountain Trip Base Camp today. Spending time resting, recovering, and acclimating here at our base camp is an inevitable part of any Everest Expedition. We keep ourselves entertained in a variety of ways, and the days actually seem to go by pretty quickly here.
May 11, 2016
Mountain Trip's May 6 Denali West Buttress Expedition called in with an update from Camp 1. Unfortunately, due to weather, the team is hunkered down at camp with a forecast of high winds and a lot of snow. In the meantime, the team is loading up on calories before they
May 11, 2016
Mountain Trip's May 11 WB Team is packed and ready to head to Talkeetna. Bob Baker, a Denali veteran, will be climbing with a guide team lead by Joe Butler. Today the team reviewed all of their equipment (lots!) and discussed the logistics of the 22 day climb. Hopefully everyone
May 10, 2016
The May 6 Denali West Buttress team called in yesterday evening from Camp 1 with an update on their trip's progress. After caching some supplies higher up on the route to lighten their load for the climb, the team returned to Camp 1 to spend the night before beginning the next
May 10, 2016
Vanessa called in to HQ early this morning for a quick update on Mountain Trip's Everest Expedition, who have successfully returned to Base Camp after a round of acclimatization. Before descending, they had reached their highest point to date, above Camp 2. The team awoke and began to prepare for their
May 9, 2016
Grant Maughan called in from 7,800' on the broad Kahiltna Glacier after the team successfully moved five miles up the West Buttress route, on their journey to climb Denali. They got a very early start, but still encountered warm conditions, with some episodes of thick snowfall. Here's Grant!
May 9, 2016
We awoke at 3:45 a.m. this morning and struggled out of our sleeping bags in the dark to get an early start on our climb up the Lhotse Face, a demanding section of the route that begins just a few hundred feet above Camp 2. After a breakfast of cereal
May 8, 2016
Lead Guide Yoshiko Miyazaki-Back called in from 7,200' on the Southeast Fork of the Kahiltna Glacier, where the May 6th team spent the day reviewing skills and preparing to move upwards on the West Buttress route of Denali. The weather is holding, and despite some clouds, the daytime temperatures are
May 8, 2016
We had a great hike today, up to the base of the Lhotse Face, and are planning to climb on up to Camp 3 tomorrow morning. This will be our last day up here at C2 and we want to get all of the acclimating we can out of our
May 7, 2016
The team packed up their kit at the Lakefront Hotel and loaded into our van and trailer for the drive north to Talkeetna. They broke the 2.5-hour drive up with a stop in Wasilla, AK, home to one of our more flamboyant political figures, and then continued up to the
