June 1, 2025
The May 20th expedition team celebrated their huge climb up to 16,400 ft yesterday with a good nights sleep in their tents and an epic breakfast of croissants, sausage, and brie the next morning. While weather isn't allowing the team to move from 14 Camp (14,200 ft / 4328 m)
June 1, 2025
The May 24th West Buttress expedition team put forward a solid effort in attempting to carry a load up around Windy Corner 13,300 ft / 4054 m) which involves a steep snow climb up the 1,000 ft high Motorcycle Hill. The team reported that halfway up this section of the
May 31, 2025
The May 20 team enjoyed a nice day on the upper mountain. They climbed up to 16,400 ft, a beautiful spot on the ridge connecting to high camp, and cached supplies in preparation for moving up. The climb above Camp 3 in the Genet Basin is some of the steepest
May 31, 2025
The May 28th Mountain Trip Denali West Buttress team is heading up the mountain! The team flew in on Thursday to basecamp on the Kahiltna Glacier with all of their equipment, food, and supplies for a 20+ day expedition into the Alaska Range. They flew in just as a pretty
May 31, 2025
The May 24th team sat out the weather for the last few days with everyone else on Denali, and were able to get back to work today. The job for today was to go back downhill to retrieve the cache of food and supplies they left a couple of days
May 31, 2025
We are terribly sorry for the delay in updating all the audio posts called in from our Denali teams over the past days. We have been experiencing a glitch with our website and hope to have it resolved ASAP. We understand that this is terribly frustrating for all of you.
May 30, 2025
Ashley called in this evening from Team Louise back down at Camp 3/14,200ft. They have been going hard on this trip, having already made a trip up to high camp and retreating after the weather closed back down. They are settled back in at Camp 3 now, recharging and recovering
May 30, 2025
Mountain Trip guide Suzanna Lourie called in from Base Camp. The team delayed their departure for Camp 1 due to stormy weather, so they took advantage of the day to review skills and tighten up their systems before the make the move tomorrow morning. The weather began clearing in the
May 30, 2025
The weather kept the team in camp today. They are eager to drop downhill and grab the supplies they cached at 13,500 feet two days ago, but sometimes the mountain makes its own plan for you. They have plenty of food and fuel, and were able to get some additional
May 29, 2025
Lead Guide Steven Van Sickle called in from Base Camp on the Southeast Fork of the Kahiltna. The team is officially on the glacier! This morning, they departed Anchorage early, driving about two hours north to the (literal) end-of-the-road town of Talkeetna, Alaska. Talkeetna is often known a a small
