June 16, 2013
John Oldring called in a really nice post from the top of Denali! The team moved up well and stood on top of North America on a beautiful day. John expresses a lot of love and gratitude in his call, and, on behalf of all of us at Mountain Trip,
June 16, 2013
We just got a call from our guide Ian Nicholson, from our June 2nd team. His group is packing up to head to the summit as I type. Greg, Joe and Josh from our second May 30th team left high camp about five minutes ago and are walking towards the
June 16, 2013
As we have tried to stress in our previous posts, satellite calls from Denali are not a sure thing, and this season it seems as if satellite connections are more temperamental than ever, so teams cannot always call in an audio post. We do have updates on all of our
June 15, 2013
The team awoke early today, looked out of their tents and saw that the weather looked favorable. They packed up and pushed up to the summit of Denali!! The climb took them about 7 hours before they reached the top. The weather was great and they are enjoying clear, huge
June 14, 2013
The team climbed up to about 16,400ft yesterday and put a small cache of food and gear in the snow in preparation for moving to high camp soon. Today was a day to rest and acclimate before the push to high camp and hopefully the summit soon after. It's been
June 14, 2013
The winds stopped blowing and the climbers who've been pent up at Camp 3 burst onto the upper mountain today. They started up the hill early this morning heading for high camp, and Priya turned around at some point with one of her guides and is back at Camp 3
June 14, 2013
Dave called in from the June 9th "Into Thin Hair" expedition this evening. They've moved on up to Camp 2 at 11,000 ft and had beautiful weather so far. The winds on the upper mountain haven't stopped this team from being able to climb and move on up. The forecast
June 14, 2013
After several days of watching the winds blow on the upper mountain, the team was rewarded with a beautiful day and took advantage of the change in weather to climb to high camp. It's one of the most beautiful days of climbing of the trip and it sounds like they
June 13, 2013
The wind has been blowing up high on Denali for the last several days keeping teams from moving to high camp and getting a summit shot. Several teams are poised at Camp 3 (14,200ft) waiting to move up to high camp, and teams on the lower mountain are still able
June 13, 2013
Ian called in with the evening dispatch tonight from the team. They moved up to Camp 3 at 14,200 ft yesterday, and had a slightly more relaxing day today. They'll make themselves comfortable at this camp as they'll be spending several nights here prior to pushing up to high camp.
