Trip Reports
Adam called from the 11,000 ft Camp 2 on Sunday evening, where the team stopped to eat and rest on their descent. They reported that it had begun to snow pretty hard, so they were going to set up tents and rest for a while and wait for visibility to improve before continuing to base…
Lead Guide Adam Smith called in from 11,200′, where the team took a break during their descent, due to poor visibility and challenging weather conditions. He gave a recap of the team’s summit day yesterday, but his dispatch was unfortunately cut short, due to satellite connectivity. The camp where they are spending the night is…
The team returned to high camp last night after a great day high on Denali. The weather is changing today with snow moving in and winds picking up a bit. They are packing up camp this morning and are going to start heading down the mountain in the next few hours. They’ll stop along the…
Adam called in at about 6:30 PM AK time from the summit of Denali! He is up there with Kenneth, Anders, and Perrine on a nice arctic evening. The rest of the team turned around this afternoon with guide Travis and headed back to high camp after climbing up to nearly 19,000 ft. They are…
We received the call this morning that the June 26th Team awoke feeling good and decided to make an attempt at the summit of Denali! Part of Mountain Trip’s Risk Management strategy for summit day is that the guides will call our Alaska Operations Director prior to departing for the summit. This helps the guides…
Hiking through the twilight of the Alaskan night, both the June 23 and 24 Teams are almost back at the airstrip. They dropped down from the 17,200′ Camp and retrieved their caches left at each of the three camps they passed. The teams have made good progress on their descent, hiking through the night to…
Lead Guide Adam Smith called in from 17,200′ after the team moved up from their home of the past few days at Camp 3 (14,200′). The team had a perfect day to move and so they loaded up their packs early in the morning and started uphill. The route begins with a moderate snow slope…
Mickey called in on behalf of the June 26th Team, after a tough day of eating, lounging, eating, making snowmen, and more lounging, as the climbers rested and gave their bodies one more day at 14,200′ before they move up to their High Camp, a full 2,000′ higher. It is important to gain as good…
Will, Sam, Josh, Sean, and Brian from the June 23rd Team are on the summit of Denali!!! Each team member of the June 23rd Team took a turn on the satellite phone before passing it over to the June 24th Team. Unfortunately, we lost the signal before the latter climbers had much opportunity to speak.…
They awoke to another beautiful day at high camp this morning and they went for the summit. They left this morning, and should be approaching the top this afternoon. The teams all reported beautiful weather up high on Denali today and hope to have a spectacular day at the top of North America! We’ll keep…