Trip Reports
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,…
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…
It was a day for the team to rest up and acclimatize before moving up to high camp and pushing for the summit. They hope to push on up to the 17,200ft high camp tomorrow. Here’s Eric with the evening dispatch. recording
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…
The climbers packed up camp at 17,200 ft this morning and started down the hill. They stopped at the 14,000 camp for a rest and some food, and plan to continue on down to base camp tonight and should be there some time tomorrow.
The team climbed up to 16,200 ft today to acclimatize for their move to high camp and to cache a bit of food and fuel. It’s a big day as they encounter some of the steepest terrain of the trip, and a 600 vertical foot section of fixed lines used for protection. Here’s Adam with…
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…
Eli called in this evening to give us an update on the team. They moved up from the 11,000 camp yesterday after waiting out some bad weather for 6 days. They are pretty happy to be climbing again! Listen to Eli. recording
The climbers pushed for the summit today, but their brief window of good weather shut down again and they were forced to turn around before getting to the top today. It hard to make the decision to turn around, but we are happy to hear that they are all safely back in camp tonight. Here’s…
The team arrived in base camp this evening after descending through the night last night from high camp. They gave it a good effort, and waited out a bunch of bad weather, but ran out of time on their trip. They are waiting in base camp now, as the continued cloudy weather isn’t allowing planes…