Trip Reports
Our guide Kyle Bates called in today from 14,200′. The team has been capitalizing on pretty amazing weather and pushed a load of supplies up the steepest part of the route today. They loaded up at camp and climbed about 1,400′ up moderate snow slopes to the base of a section known as The Headwall.…
This morning another team of climbers from around the world met a team of Mountain Trip guides at the Millennium Alaska Hotel in Anchorage to finish their preparations for an attempt on the classic West Buttress route of Denali. The West Buttress is an iconic route that climbs over 13,000′ from the southeast Fork of…
Lead Guide Peter Inglis and Rick Piette called in tonight’s update from their camp at about 9,700′ on the upper Kahiltna Glacier. The weather has been perfect and everyone is doing great. They made what we call a single carry up to this elevation, meaning that they packed up all their kit at their previous…
Well, We have returned to civilization! It’s been a couple days since we flew off the Kahiltna glacier, and the world has got us back. We completed our trip in Talkeetna with a big feast of burgers and fish sandwiches at the West Rib, after flying out of basecamp on the evening of May…
The West Rib team made it up to the base of the West Rib proper today. They had a long, tough go of it as they made their way up the Northeast Fork of the Kahiltna Glacier, aka “The Valley of Death.” The moniker is earned by the numerous crevasses that riddle the glacier as…
Lloyd Charton called in from Camp 1 at 7,800 feet on the broad Kahiltna Glacier. The team pushed roughly five miles up the glacier and put in their first camp that is actually on the West Buttress route. It is a spectacular place to camp, and the vastness of the surroundings tends to give climbers…
Our guide Kyle Bates called in from the very warm 14,200′ camp. The team made a back carry today, meaning that they dropped back down to the site of their last supply cache at about 13,500′, dug it up from the snow and carried the supplies back up to camp. This makes for a pretty…
Eli Potter called in from a hot day on the glacier. They descended back to 7,800′ and are relaxing during the heat of the day. They plan to head up into the Northeast Fork of the Kahiltna Glacier during the night, when the glacier is frozen. recording
The team called in from Base Camp, where they spent a day reviewing skills and finalizing their preparations for moving up the Kahiltna Glacier. Lead guide Peter Inglis called in and an enthusiastic Nicole added some description to their dispatch. recording We received a few images from the team, before they flew into the Alaska…
The West Rib team carried food and fuel up to the high camp at 16,400′ to prepare a cache for their push up the route. They made great time, which is a very good indicator of how they will do on the route itself, and everyone is feeling confident for their upcoming ascent of the…