June 3, 2014
The May 22nd Team called in a nice report today, but unfortunately the satellite connection wasn't very good and the report ended up garbled. This happens a lot in the mountains, where there is lots of big obstacles interfering with the satellite connection. That being said, we are able to
June 2, 2014
The Upper West Rib Team checked in after a strong push up to 9,600', which they did in one push, moving their camp up 1,800' from their home of last night. This is called "single carrying," when you load up all you kit and just move your camp higher up
June 2, 2014
Lead Guide Yoshiko Miyazaki-Back called in to report that the team has a cache of supplies in place on the ridge above their 14,200' camp, are well rested, and are ready to push to high camp in the morning. The forecast looks favorable for a Wednesday summit attempt, and they
June 2, 2014
Gerald Oxley called in from Camp 3 at 14,200' (4328m) to reoprt that the United Arab Emirates Team #1 has positioned themselves for a summit bid in the next few days. They carried a load of supplies up onto the ridge above their camp, depositing it at an altitude of
June 2, 2014
The Upper Rib team hasn't called in recently, but we have heard that they are moving well, making quick work of the lower glacier. Yesterday, the team flew to the glacier and hit the ground running. moving up to Camp 1 at the 7,800'. Today, they continued their ascent, moving
June 1, 2014
Alan Rousseau called in from the team's home for the past week to tell us that the team pushed their supply cache high on the ridge that leads to high camp today. They donned crampons and scaled the steepest part of the West Buttress route, utilizing a couple hundred meters
June 1, 2014
Dan K called in from our May 22 West Buttress Team. Finally, the tough weather that has been hammering the team has broken and they resumed the hard work of moving their food, fuel and supplies further up the mountain. Today, they carried supplies up a moderately steep slope called
June 1, 2014
Well, the weather is breaking and the patient members of our May 26th team are flying to the glacier! They have spent five full days doing the "Talkeetna Hang," which might well be a Mountain Trip record. Josh Garner sent us the following post, and Ian Nicholson shared the images
June 1, 2014
Lead guide Scott Woolums called in with the first audio post for our May 30th Denali Team. They choose to spend yesterday in Anchorage, rather than contribute to the backlog of climbers who have been stuck in Talkeetna for up to six days. The weather has not permitted any planes
June 1, 2014
The May 12 team was one of the only teams to move anywhere on Denali yesterday as they pushed through the wind and snow to descend to basecamp. They joined over 100 climbers who are waiting to fly out to Talkeetna, some who have been waiting for almost a week
