Ted called in this evening, after making a summit climb of Radio Tower Peak, a really fun objective not too far from Kahiltna Base Camp. It sounds like everyone is doing great and it sounds like they are feeding Jeff Furman well, which is good, as he is heading up Denali in a week or…
DetailsWe’ve been following the team’s progress via their Spot GPS device. You can follow them as well, by clicking the link at the right side of our blog. Their team is… yep- you guessed it- the Lucky Lindy Team. They climbed up the fairly steep and always tiring “Pig Hill” and took a rest at…
DetailsEric called in this afternoon from our May 20th team. Yesterday they moved up to Camp 1 at 7,800 ft and this morning they continued up to 9,600 ft. They are doing great and sounds like they are enjoying themselves as well.
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The climbers left Camp 3 at about 6 am Nepal time heading up the mountain. Our Everest climbers are on the way to the S. Col where they’ll take a few hours rest before heading for the summit this evening. Ania and Tarke Sherpa will split off just above the “Yellow Band” and head up…
2nd guide Ian Nicholson called and filled me in on some details: The guests that summited yesterday were Strah, Melissa and Jason. The team is currently at 14 camp and planning to descend to 11k tonight, and make their way to basecamp tomorrow.
The team carried a load of supplies up to 16,200 ft today and cached it in preparation for their move to high camp on Friday (weather permitting as always). Sounds like they are doing good and looking forward to a rest day tomorrow.
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Well, the team woke up, looked outside and decided that they liked what they saw, so they packed up their kit and took off for the summit! They are at about 19,000′ (5792m) right now, and should be at the broad Football Field plateau in about a half an hour. From the Football Field, it…
Well, we’re all back in the comfort of our homes after spending 17 days in the Alaska Range. We had some great weather down low on the mountain and got pretty beaten up by high winds at the 14,200′ camp. We made a foray up to 16,200′ to make a cache, and then dropped back…
The team moved yesterday from basecamp to camp 1 at 7,800′. This involved traveling about five miles up glacier, without much elevation gain, but it is a pretty tough day, nonetheless. The views of 17,400′ Mount Foraker, looming ten thousand vertical feet above you are as staggering as the loads climbers carry out of camp.…
Joe Butler called the office yesterday to report a change of plans. Altitude sickness necessitated a descent from their attempt to move to high camp. Ariel Tyler had symptoms that made continued ascent impossible, and our guides recommended descent from camp 3 to camp 2 to have her benefit from the decreased altitude. Upon descent…