Trip Reports
Another early morning wake up call for the Everest climbers at Camp 2 today. They rose to clear skies and no winds as they pulled on their down suits and prepared for the next couple of days of their push to the summit. They’ll rest for the afternoon at Camp 3 where they are starting…
The team is practicing patience on Denali, waiting for the weather to improve and to keep moving up the mountain. Many teams are waiting with them at the 14,200 ft camp today as the weather has held teams from going to high camp and having a chance to summit for a few days now. They…
Dave called in the dispatch from the May 13th Mountain Trip Denali team this evening from the 11,000 ft camp. Today they climbed up to around 13,500 ft to put a cache of food and gear in the snow, and returned to Camp 2 for the night. They carried their loads up Motorcycle Hill, and…
Lead Guide Josh Garner called in a report on the team’s move up past the top of the Kahiltna Glacier. They hiked heavy loads about 4.5 miles up glacier in pretty tough weather, as clouds, snow and wind poured along the Kahiltna. As they climbed higher, they rose above much of the weather as they…
Lead Guide Aaron Diamond called in from Genet Basin, a broad bowl perched above a hanging glacier and below a rocky ridge that leads up to High Camp on the West Buttress and the steep snow slopes that lead up to the West Ridge route on Denali. They moved up today in much kinder conditions…
Manish called in from the huge basin camp at 14,200′. The team has been waiting for a break in the weather to move up to high Camp, but waves of precipitation and wind have thus far not given them the opportunity to push high. If anyone can provide a translation of Manish’s report, I’d sure…
Lead Guide Sebastian Grau checked in from Genet Basin, a giant bowl in which they have made their third camp as they continue to acclimatize. The team moved up from 11,200′ today in much nicer conditions than the maelstrom in which they turned back from yesterday. Patience paid off! Everyone is doing well and in…
Denali, “The Great One,” rises a full 18,000′ (5486 m) from the surrounding landscape in southcentral Alaska. At 20,310 feet (6190 m), it is the tallest mountain in North America and one of the famed Seven Summits. Despite being the third highest of the Seven, it has more vertical relief than Mount Everest, and many…
A group of climbers from different hemispheres have gathered in Anchorage to forge themselves into a team that will attempt to climb the highest peak in North America. Denali, at 20,310 feet (6190 m), is arguably the hardest of the famed Seven Summits, due in part to it’s location just south of the Arctic Circle,…
Climbers cross a 5-ladder bridge over a huge crevasses in the Khumbu Icefall. Terry Kelleher called in a nice update from camp 2 at about 21,500′ today. Terry climbed up two days ago with most of our team, and Jacob Schmitz, our Lead Guide for this joint Mountain Trip / Mountain Madness Everest Expedition, caught…