Trip Reports
Our third team of the season is headed up to fly into Denali later this afternoon. Our May 8th Team met in Anchorage yesterday and finalized their preparations for their attempt on the highest peak in North America. The team spent much of yesterday running errands in Anchorage, picking up last minute items and eating…
Our Island Peak team was delayed by weather at the dirt airstrip in Lukla. The inclement weather, combined with the peak of the pre monsoon tourist season, resulted in almost a thousand people waiting to fly. Our guys got a bit creative and hiked a short ways down valley to get below the clouds and…
Bernd Horsman called in with the first audio post of our 2013 Denali season! Apparently, it has been quite chilly at night, and some of his call is about strategies they are devising to stay warm, as it was -14C (7F) in his tent this morning. Heck, that’s a balmy day on Denali!! Bernd’s…
Today is a clear and beautiful day in the Alaska Range. The team “made a carry” yesterday to roughly 10,200′ and buried a cache of equipment and food before descending back to the site of their Camp 1 at 7,800′ in the early afternoon. This technique is called “double carrying” between camps. It is an…
Our second Denali team of the season is on the move up the mountain! We apologize for the delay in posting, but we had a bit of a technical challenge that prevented us from posting recently. We will refer to this team as our “2013 May 5 West Buttress Team” and you can follow them…
Perfect weather this morning. Our 4th day up at Camp 2. Lots of people moving below and above Camp 3 now. Always a good thing to remember, there is no hurry. Lots of people appear to be planning early summits, but there still are no fixed lines to the summit and the jet stream is…
Andy Forbes and his guides from Mountain Trip, Sean McManamy and Brian Muller flew into Kahiltna Base Camp today to begin their expedition on Denali. This is the first trip of the season and they were excited to get underway. They met in Anchorage yesterday for a gear check and briefing before heading to Talkeetna…
Were up again in Camp 2 getting ready to go on up to Camp 3 in the next couple days. Lots of people here now between C2 and C3. This is our longest rotation up high, 6-7 days. After this one, we will be ready to summit! Our Sherpa team moved Oxygen and tents up…
Hello everyone! We are back in Pheriche after a solid attempt to climb Island Peak. On April 30th we hiked to Island Peak Base Camp and set up shop. We woke at 12 am and Ben, Tom, Sonam, and I left for the climb. After 3.5 hours of climbing (nearly 3000 ft of elevation gain)…
Scott called in a post from Camp 1 on the team’s second real rotation up the mountain. Some exciting news is that Trudi is back!! Scott and Trudi are at Camp 1, and Manoj has moved up to spend the night at Camp 2, in the company of some of our Climbing Sherpas. It sounds…