Trip Reports

Back in Anchorage

The weather finally cleared just enough for planes to reach base camp today and our friends at Talkeetna Air Taxi swooped in and picked them all up.   Special thanks to those guys for working hard to get our climbers out safely today in challenging conditions.   After a short time in Talkeetna to get some food,…

June 24th Team Heading Down Tonight

The team rested today at the 14,200 ft camp after summitting a few days ago.  One team member tweaked a knee coming down from high camp, so they spent a day resting before continuing the descent.   They’ll take off early in the morning tomorrow and head towards base. Here’s Pablo checking in with an evening…

Waiting at Base Camp

The team is at base camp for another night tonight, waiting for the clouds to clear so planes can fly into base camp and pick them up.  The planes can only fly into the mountains when there is visibility, so the low cloud layer has prevented them from reaching base camp for the last 2…

June 24th Team Summits!

Congratulations to all the climbers on the June 24th team who reached the summit of Denali today!  It was a windy day, and the weather was deteriorating in the afternoon, but they were able to get to the summit and are now back safely in high camp. Here’s guide Ted Grosgebauer with the evening audio…