October 15, 2012
Joe and Scott flew from Bali to Timika, West Papua late last night and arrived to this remote island early this morning. Joe has been travelling pretty much non-stop from his home for the last 2 days. It's a long way to Papua, but the guys are there and plan
October 14, 2012
The October 2012 Carstensz Expedition is in Bali and preparing to head on to West Papua very early tomorrow morning. This is a team of one, as we had some attrition before the trip even began. We are continuing with climber Joe Ashkar joining guide Scott Woolums in Bali and
July 17, 2012
Marty, Kenny, and Denali hiked down to base camp last night. Kenny is doing better and it's good to hear that they were able to get back down to base camp on their own power. They'll get a flight out on a fixed wing flight this morning back to Talkeetna
July 16, 2012
The team traveled through the night last night from Camp 2 at 11,000 ft down to base camp. It was a long final push, but they had relatively good conditions and they were motivated to get back to the world of hot showers and cheese burgers. They spent several nervous
July 16, 2012
The Honey Badger team is split up now, but most of the team is at base camp this morning and waiting for a flight to Talkeetna as soon as the weather allows. Marty and Denali have remained up at the 14,200ft W. Buttress camp with Kenny who is having some
July 15, 2012
It continued to blow and snow up high on Denali yesterday, and the team finally decided to pack it up and head down. It has been an extended period of terrible weather up high on the mountain (there have been several records broken for cold and rainfall in AK this
July 14, 2012
The June 24 WB expedition is back in town! We made it back to Anchorage this afternoon after a late-night extra-special TAT glacier pick-up from Paul Roderick and his Turbine Otter "0 Papa Romeo" yesterday. We, that is the remaining strongholds of our original team, Matt Foote and Karin Schoeman,
July 14, 2012
The team is back in Talkeetna after a long push through deep snow and tough weather to get to base camp. Our friends at Talkeetna Air Taxi went above and beyond (once again) to get the team out in a small break in the weather late last night. The climbers
July 13, 2012
Lead guide Marty Schmidt called in an update from 14,200' camp. He provided some additional details of their summit day, which sounds like a tough one. Great job by everyone! They are going to head back down towards the airstrip at 7,200' and should be back in Talkeetna in the
July 13, 2012
Kevin Koprek called from 14,200' with an update. The team has been stuck at camp due to deep snow with unstable layers on the slopes above them. Kevin described it as a "layer cake of snow," meaning multiple weak layers, with a thicker slab towards the top, a result of
