Trip Reports
Guide Josh Garner of the June 17 West Buttress team called from 14,200′ letting us know that they have moved camp once again. The team will take at least one Park Service mandated rest day to acclimatize to the thinner air of the upper mountain and mentally and physically rest before hitting the fixed lines…
Guide Brian Muller called in an update for the June 19 West Buttress expedition, who woke up in the middle of the night to start their trek from Camp One at 7,800′ to Camp Two at 11,200′. While the high pressure system has helped climbers make faster progress up the mountain than when the range…
Although the beginning of this update is a bit muffled, we can make out that this is a climber calling from the June 9 West Buttress team at High Camp. They noted that they will take another rest day at 17,200′, and intend to head for the summit of Denali tomorrow, weather permitting! If anyone…
Mountain Trip lead guide Eli Potter and guide Ryan Gould have just flown onto the glacier with a television crew, who are filming a show about the Seven Summits, and have joined Mountain Trip to film the Denali portion of the show. Brazillian filmmaker and mountaineer Gustavo Ziller and Gabriel Tarso, who will be operating…
Mountain Trip guide Joe Butler called in what will be the last update from the glacier for the June 5 West Buttress team. They descended throughout the night to reach Base Camp on the glacier at 7,200′, after a whirlwind few days up above 17,000′, including a few moments at 20,310′, the summit of Denali.…
June 17 West Buttress team called in an update from deep in the Alaska Range, at 11,200′ Camp on Denali. The team likely spent their day yesterday caching at around 13,500′ to prepare for their move up to 14,200′, Camp Three on the route. Here’s the update!
After their successful push to the Roof of North America, the summit of the Great One at 20,310′, the triumphant June 5 West Buttress team is now making their way back down to Denali Base Camp at 7,200′. Climber Ted Labedz called from 14,200′, noting that the team was still “riding yesterday’s high” — quite…
Climber Michael Halbig called in an update for the June 9 West Buttress team, who spent yesterday bringing their final cache up to 16,200′ to prepare for their move to High Camp on the route! High Camp, the last organized camp on the mountain before the summit of Denali, is perched at 17,200′ on the…
Mountain Trip guide Brian Muller called in for an update for the June 19 West Buttress team, from Camp 1 on the route at 7,800′. After a bit of rest and a review of glacier travel technique, the team departed Base Camp at 2 am, during the “darkest” and “coldest” part of the evening–in theory.…
After the team’s orientation with the National Park Service in Talkeetna, the weather moved in and their flight to the Kahiltna was delayed a bit. But they were able to fly in later in the day, and the plan is to rest for a few hours then move to Camp 1. Here’s Brian Muller,…