Trip Reports
WELCOME TO ALASKA – MAY 21 DENALI WEST BUTTRESS TEAM Mountain Trip appreciates the trust and support of our climbers and another team of adventurers have chosen to join us in Alaska, to fly in to the stunning, heavily glaciated Alaska Range to attempt the West Buttress route on North America’s highest peak–Denali–which soars…
We mentioned that one of our teams witnessed an accident on the 20th of May. The incident did not involve anyone on a Mountain Trip team, although our May 8th team was very close to the climbers immediately before they fell. Both climbers survived the fall. Nevertheless, it was traumatic for our climbers to see.…
Mountain Trip Guide Fischer Hazen called in a update on the May 8 Denali West Buttress Team at Camp Three at 14,200′. The team has set their cache to put them in a good position to move camp, and are hoping to move up to High Camp at 17,200′ within the next couple of days.…
Unfortunately this update we can’t quite decipher. Give it a listen and help us out with who called it in and for which team in the comments!
The May 18 West Buttress team made the trek up the glacier from base camp starting at 7,200′ and ascending to Camp One at 7,800′. Here’s the update from the team!
Climber Brian Dagg called in a quick update on the May 10th team, who are still enjoying beautiful weather at 14,200′. They were building snow walls to shelter them from the wind that can sometimes hit 14-Camp relentlessly. They have retrieved their cache and are in a good position to ascend the steep headwall out…
The May 8 team had a beautiful day on Sunday (May 20) to climb from camp at 14,200 ft up to the ridge at 16,300 ft where they cached some food and fuel in preparation for moving to high camp. The climbing from the 14,200 ft camp gets a bit steeper as they ascend up…
The guys had beautiful weather today and were able to move on up to Camp3 at 14,200 ft! Jason called in this evening and said he was just wearing a sun hoody at Windy Corner, which can be a notoriously cold and windy spot. They are enjoying the spectacular views of Mount Foraker and Mount…
Chris had the honors of making the evening dispatch for the May 13 Denali team. They moved on up to Camp 2 at 11,000 ft in beautiful weather and are back on track after some weather delays to start the trip. Everyone is in good spirits and doing great after a big move from 7,800…
The May 18 Denali Team is at basecamp! They were delayed one day by weather, but are happy to be on the glacier tonight and ready to start climbing tomorrow! The flight from the village of Talkeetna to basecamp on the Kahiltna Glacier is about 45 minutes and one of the most beautiful mountain flights…