July 14, 2015
The team arrived in base camp early in the afternoon today, and shortly after hopped in ski planes and were in Talkeetna. They are spending tonight enjoying the relative civilization of Talkeetna and will be coming back to Anchorage tomorrow. Congratulations to everyone on the team for working hard and
July 13, 2015
Earlier today the team called from Camp 1 and reported that they were going to rest and evaluate conditions of the lower glacier. The plan is to continue to Base Camp when conditions allow.
July 13, 2015
A fantastic summit day allowed seven of us to make the top at 7pm on 7/9/15. The weather was calm and the views were amazing! The following day, we packed up and headed back down to 14 Camp to some warm greetings from our other team members, who had prepared
July 13, 2015
Adam called from the 11,000 ft Camp 2 on Sunday evening, where the team stopped to eat and rest on their descent. They reported that it had begun to snow pretty hard, so they were going to set up tents and rest for a while and wait for visibility to
July 12, 2015
Lead Guide Adam Smith called in from 11,200', where the team took a break during their descent, due to poor visibility and challenging weather conditions. He gave a recap of the team's summit day yesterday, but his dispatch was unfortunately cut short, due to satellite connectivity. The camp where they
July 12, 2015
The team returned to high camp last night after a great day high on Denali. The weather is changing today with snow moving in and winds picking up a bit. They are packing up camp this morning and are going to start heading down the mountain in the next few
July 11, 2015
Adam called in at about 6:30 PM AK time from the summit of Denali! He is up there with Kenneth, Anders, and Perrine on a nice arctic evening. The rest of the team turned around this afternoon with guide Travis and headed back to high camp after climbing up to
July 11, 2015
We received the call this morning that the June 26th Team awoke feeling good and decided to make an attempt at the summit of Denali! Part of Mountain Trip's Risk Management strategy for summit day is that the guides will call our Alaska Operations Director prior to departing for the
July 11, 2015
Hiking through the twilight of the Alaskan night, both the June 23 and 24 Teams are almost back at the airstrip. They dropped down from the 17,200' Camp and retrieved their caches left at each of the three camps they passed. The teams have made good progress on their descent,
