Trip Reports

May 30 Team – Holding at High Camp

Today the team is holding at high camp due to the weather. Ian called in this morning and was reporting significant winds in camp despite the favorable weather forecast. This team has seen all types of weather on their trip but, the combination of below zero temperature and high winds make a summit bid impossible…

May 31 Team Fubar at 14,000′ Camp

Today the team will practice the skills they need to keep moving uphill.   The next part of the route includes steep fixed lines and running protection. The fixed lines climb a section of the west buttress just below the ridge that leads to high camp. Once Team Fubar climbs the fixed lines, they will continue…

May 31 Team settling into Camp 3

Team FUBAR sounds to be having a great time still, and they spent the day picking up the cache they’d left down by windy corner several days earlier.  They are all settled in now and will spend a few nights at this new camp to acclimatize before pushing up higher on the mountain.   They hope…

May 30 Team Moves to High Camp

The weather has finally improved and the May 30th team has moved up from 14,000 ft basin where they’ve been waiting it out for several days.   They are excited to be climbing again, and had a beautiful day to climb up out of the basin, and onto the spectacular and exposed ridge that takes them…