Our May 15th West Buttress Team about to leave the Earth BnB

Welcome to the dispatch blog for Mountain Trip’s May 15th West Buttress expedition.  A team of nine climbers and three of our guides have gathered in Southcentral Alaska and are now in the process of attempting to climb to the summit of North America’s highest mountain.

Let’s meet the team!

Nicholas Bailey
Ted Watrous
Lar Fant
Brandon Barker
Yvonne Shanahan
Hideko Yamumoto
John Cheng
Erhard Zeising
Ron Pichler
Zach Johnson (lead guide)
Caitlin Hague (guide)
Ben Adkinson (guide)