Trip Reports
The UAE #2 team is spending the day at 11,200′. They cached at 13,500′ (4115) yesterday, but today, some of the team are considering if they want to continue upward or not. They have some tough decisions to make, and are taking today to sort things out.
The West Rib team is moving up the Kahiltna Glacier to the basin camp at 11,200′. They are making good time and doing their best to move up during the current good weather.
We’ve received word that UAE Group #1 has departed High Camp and is heading to the summit! It’s a beautiful, calm day….perfect for a summit bid. Best of luck to the team!
Yoshiko called this morning to report that the May 16th Team is headed to the summit! The team worked through cold and windy conditions yesterday to move from 14 Camp to High Camp at 17,200, but they still made good time—about 7 hours.They arrived at High Camp in the late afternoon, set up camp, and…
The May 22nd Team called in a nice report today, but unfortunately the satellite connection wasn’t very good and the report ended up garbled. This happens a lot in the mountains, where there is lots of big obstacles interfering with the satellite connection. That being said, we are able to discern that the team arrived…
The Upper West Rib Team checked in after a strong push up to 9,600′, which they did in one push, moving their camp up 1,800′ from their home of last night. This is called “single carrying,” when you load up all you kit and just move your camp higher up the mountain. The weather has…
Lead Guide Yoshiko Miyazaki-Back called in to report that the team has a cache of supplies in place on the ridge above their 14,200′ camp, are well rested, and are ready to push to high camp in the morning. The forecast looks favorable for a Wednesday summit attempt, and they are prepping themselves for the…
Gerald Oxley called in from Camp 3 at 14,200′ (4328m) to reoprt that the United Arab Emirates Team #1 has positioned themselves for a summit bid in the next few days. They carried a load of supplies up onto the ridge above their camp, depositing it at an altitude of over 16,400 feet (5000m). Major…
The Upper Rib team hasn’t called in recently, but we have heard that they are moving well, making quick work of the lower glacier. Yesterday, the team flew to the glacier and hit the ground running. moving up to Camp 1 at the 7,800′. Today, they continued their ascent, moving up to an intermediate camp…
Alan Rousseau called in from the team’s home for the past week to tell us that the team pushed their supply cache high on the ridge that leads to high camp today. They donned crampons and scaled the steepest part of the West Buttress route, utilizing a couple hundred meters of rope that is affixed…