Trip Reports
The May 20 team called in an update from Camp Three at 14,200′ (4238m), after a rest day. They are planning to pack up camp tomorrow and push up to High Camp at 17,200′ (5242m). They will climb up the steepest part of the route, a section called The Headwall, to gain a fun ridge…
Jason Swan called in from the May 17th team. They are nestled in at the 17,200′ High Camp, awaiting a break in the series of low pressure systems that have kept them from making a summit bid thus far. They have plenty of time, and are in good spirits; they just need a bit of…
Keeping things comical, as they have throughout the trip, climber Eric Baurenschmidt called in on behalf of “Team Dank Sauce,” who spent the day eating Pringles, stomping out the snowy runway, and waiting in Denali Base Camp Limbo for the planes to start arriving to bring them back out to civilization. Hot showers, greenery and…
Mountain Trip guide Chris Cullaz called in an update from the May 21 West Buttress team, who enjoyed a rest day yesterday at 14,200′ to maximize their acclimatization before moving higher on the route. Today the team plans to move up to High Camp at 17,200′. The weather outlook for Monday and Tuesday looks promising…
Guide Jason Denley called in an update after a nighttime descent down to Base Camp, a long, midnight sun-lit push that drops over 13,000′ in vertical from the summit back down to 7,200′. Unfortunately, the weather has prevented them from catching a ride with Talkeetna Air Taxi back to civilization, and they may have to…
Guide Nicole Lawton called in an update from the May 19 team, still waiting on the weather at High Camp, and eating plenty of snacks. Once again the team awoke to high winds streaming off the summit ridge above camp, and decided to wait for better conditions to make their summit push. The weather forecast…
This update from the May 20 team is a bit hard to hear, but we know that the team spent their day caching above the fixed lines, at around on the route up to High Camp. They plan on taking a rest day on Sunday, June 2, before they push further up the route. The…
Once again the team awoke to high winds streaming off the summit ridge above camp, and decided to wait for better conditions to make their summit push. The weather forecast is suggesting a promising weather window on Monday and Tuesday, with the winds diminishing significantly and dry weather predicted. Here’s the quick update from the…
Climber Alexander called in an update on the May 21 West Buttress team, from Camp Three at 14,200′ on the route. Yesterday, the team broke out their crampons and ascended the steep fixed lines to cache on the ridge, at around 16,300′, to put them into position to move up to High Camp. From 17,200′…
Mark from the May 13 Denali West Buttress expedition (“Yoshi and the Yetis”), who reached the summit a couple of days ago, called in an update from Base Camp, awaiting their flight out of the range. The team descended over 13,000′ down from the summit of Denali, picking up a cache along the way, making…