Trip Reports
Yesterday, or very very early this morning, the team launched from Basecamp to make their way to Camp 1. Basecamp sits at 7,200′ (2194m), on the Southeast Fork of the Kahiltna Glacier. Leaving camp, the team first descended Heartbreak Hill for about 600′ until the met with the main body of the 40 mile long…
Lead Mountain Trip Guide Ty Guarino rang in from the 17,200 foot High Camp on Denali’s West Buttress route. The team made a summit push yesterday! They climbed up to about 19,800 feet, but increasing winds of about 30 mph caused conditions to deteriorate to the point where it was imprudent to keep heading upwards.…
Lead Mountain Trip Guide Jesse Yon called in a report from Genet Basin, the big camp at 14,200′ on the West Buttress route of Denali. Unfortunately, his call was cut off and he wasn’t able to share much about the team’s day or their plans. Fear not – we’ll fill in the blanks! The team…
Jason Woo gives us an update from High Camp on the West Buttress of Denali. The team spent today resting, eating, and apparently watching Netflix (!?!?!), all the while building some additional acclimatization ahead of an upcoming summit bid. High Camp is located in and around a shallow depression in the accumulation zone of the…
Will Tucker called in from 7,200 feet on the Southeast Fork of the Kahiltna Glacier. The skiers on our June 15th expedition spent the day reviewing some of the skills that they will need to have “dialed” before they head up glacier in the wee hours of tomorrow morning. The main body of the Kahiltna…
Yesterday the team left Camp 3 (14,200′ 4937m) to climb about 1,000′ up the “Bunny Hill” to where the fixed lines begin. This usually takes a couple of hours. Here, at the bottom of the Headwall, two ropes spanning 600′ in length run from the ridge at 16,200′ (4937m) to a large crevasse known as…
Yesterday the team was able to pack up in Camp 3 and move on up to High Camp! They retraced their steps from cache day, first climbing out of Camp 3 at 14,200′ (4328m) to the bergshrund at 15,000′ (4572m) where they clipped into the fixed lines with their ascenders. Here they spent a couple…
The team enjoyed a rest day at High Camp yesterday in preparation for their summit bid today! Yesterday they were able to get some rest, fuel, and hydrate. They dialed in their packs for their summit attempt, and went over details of the day. Not much else to say here, but we can’t wait to…
It is warm on the lower glacier this time of year and teams will move at night when the snow bridges spanning crevasses are the most frozen and the temps are the most comfortable. The team started out by flying into Basecamp at 7,200′ (2194m) on the Southeast Fork of the Kahiltna Glacier. When the…
Yesterday the team was able to take a rest day at Camp 3. During that day they took some time to sort through their supplies and designated some for their cache day on the ridge at 16,200′ in preparation for their move to High Camp. They took a short hike to The Edge of the…