May 8, 2013
Our second Denali team of the season is on the move up the mountain! We apologize for the delay in posting, but we had a bit of a technical challenge that prevented us from posting recently. We will refer to this team as our "2013 May 5 West Buttress Team"
May 5, 2013
Perfect weather this morning. Our 4th day up at Camp 2. Lots of people moving below and above Camp 3 now. Always a good thing to remember, there is no hurry. Lots of people appear to be planning early summits, but there still are no fixed lines to the summit
May 4, 2013
Andy Forbes and his guides from Mountain Trip, Sean McManamy and Brian Muller flew into Kahiltna Base Camp today to begin their expedition on Denali. This is the first trip of the season and they were excited to get underway. They met in Anchorage yesterday for a gear check and
May 4, 2013
Were up again in Camp 2 getting ready to go on up to Camp 3 in the next couple days. Lots of people here now between C2 and C3. This is our longest rotation up high, 6-7 days. After this one, we will be ready to summit! Our Sherpa team
May 3, 2013
Hello everyone! We are back in Pheriche after a solid attempt to climb Island Peak. On April 30th we hiked to Island Peak Base Camp and set up shop. We woke at 12 am and Ben, Tom, Sonam, and I left for the climb. After 3.5 hours of climbing (nearly
May 2, 2013
Scott called in a post from Camp 1 on the team's second real rotation up the mountain. Some exciting news is that Trudi is back!! Scott and Trudi are at Camp 1, and Manoj has moved up to spend the night at Camp 2, in the company of some of
April 30, 2013
The team is all here in Base Camp now. We are enjoying Base Camp life and spend our days visiting friends in camp,enjoying hot showers and unlimited WiFi internet, eating sushi... it's all good! We have been going over the details of our next rotation up the hill. We're planning
April 29, 2013
We spent the night in Pheriche and are currently eating breakfast before we start walking to Chhukung. We will organize our gear for the climb today and go over some of the skills required for our ascent. Tomorrow we are going to climb up Chhukung Ri for a bit more
April 28, 2013
We made it to Everest Base Camp (EBC)! We met with the Mountain Trip Mount Everest team and ate lunch in EBC earlier today. We want to thank Scott Woolums and all of the Sherpa crew for making us feel so at home! We are now back at Gorak Shep
April 28, 2013
We had an early morning today, waking up at 4am in Camp 2 and starting down by 5am to both beat the heat and hopefully have an uneventful passage through the icefall. As as the day warms, there is a higher amount of activity in the icefall, so we hoped
