July 6, 2014
Lead guide Jacob Schmitz called in from the team's new home- High Camp! They worked hard yesterday to push up to 17,200' and everyone is tucked into their warm sleeping bags for the evening. It sounded like to day was a pretty nice day to travel and the team took
July 6, 2014
Dave Bull called in after the June 23 team carried loads up the steep fixed lines and cached them on the ridge that leads to high camp. This is a tough day, both physically and mentally, as descending steep terrain like the fixed lines are stretched across can be unnerving
July 6, 2014
Rob called in from the top of Denali just minutes ago! They battled the weather a bit today, but they are doing great and moving really well. Congratulations Rob, Con, and Nick! They'll head back down to high camp in just a few minutes where they'll spend the night and
July 5, 2014
We might need to come up with a new, more fitting team name for this crew. They have been signing off each dispatch with a cacophony of jungle and/or farm animal calls. If this had only just begun, I might suspect Cerebral Edema of the entire group, but as they
July 5, 2014
The June 26 Denali team called in (Ross, I believe?) after today's rest and acclimatization day at the broad 14,200' camp. Today they took a short hike over to "The Edge of the World." This spot truly feels like such, with a stomach dropping view of 1000m of nothing between
July 5, 2014
Lead guide for our June 19 team, Constantine Severis called in after the team took a rest and acclimatization day at High Camp. Moving up to this camp at 17,200' is a very hard day of work and it is generally prudent to take a day to rest, hydrate and
July 4, 2014
Nick Aiello called in on behalf of the June 19th team, who have patiently been awaiting an opportunity to move up to their last camp of the West Buttress route. Today, they took advantage of clear skies and moved up the 3,000' of elevation to establish themselves at High Camp!
July 4, 2014
An enthusiastic post was called in by the June 23rd Team. I'm uncertain who the caller was, so if anyone can help identify him, please let us know! The team backcarried today, meaning they dropped down out of camp to pick up the supplies they had cached at 13,500' a
July 4, 2014
We've not heard from the team in a few days, but we did get a report late yesterday that they had decided not to continue their bid for the summit. The team had experienced a number of weather delays, but continued their push for the summit in spite of those
