Trip Reports
Scott called a bit ago to report that the entire team is now in the remote, jungle village of Sugapa. They made two flights to shuttle everyone out of Timika and also made a reconnaissance flight over the mountain, so they are back on schedule! Sugapa is deep in the jungle and the team are…
Well, we’re experiencing a sort delay while flights and logistics are organized today, however; everything is set for a launch tomorrow morning early. We have a Pilatus Porter chartered to fly us into a small jungle airstrip called Sugapa. This should be a very interesting flight! Flights, actually, as it will take two shuttles flights…
Hello Everyone, We are enjoying our second night here in Timika and are experiencing why any expedition to Carstensz Pyramid can be challenging. The violence associated with the mine strike has escalated since we have been here and there is a lot going on that has affected our trip. Today we received news that the…
Quick update of the team with a local Balinese Dance group. Perfect evening and we leave in an hour! More soon! Scott
Hello from Bali! We had a busy day here checking gear, getting packed, and enjoying Bali! We had a huge surf today, it was actually too big for swimming. The whole team is here and everything is set to move ahead tonight as scheduled. We are flying at midnight for Papua. Next stop Timika Sheraton…
Hello from Bali! I arrived a few days ago to get everything ready for the 2011 Mountain Trip Carstensz Pyramid Expedition. Arriving early gives me plenty of time to work…and surf! Everything is going as usual here in Indonesia. There is a large, ongoing strike at huge gold and copper mine near the mountain, a…
Welcome to the dispatches from the Mountain Trip 2011 Carstensz Pyramid Expedition. We’ll be posting updates here to allow friends, family, and armchair adventurers to follow this expedition to climb the highest peak on the continent that includes Australia, New Zealand, and New Guinea. There is some argument here, which is why I mention it,…
Hi everyone! Thanks for tuning into our blog and following the teams progress up and down the “big one”. We are all currently back in Anchorage enjoying our belly’s being full of delicious steaks and beer. To back track a little bit…after waiting out five days of high winds and accumulations of snow…
Everyone flew off the mountain last night back to the relative civilization of Talkeetna. They were all pretty tired after a long night of travel. It was a good effort by all the climbers, but the weather just never cooperated to allow them to reach the summit. We’ll get a good trip recap posted from…
They are all in base camp this morning and just waiting for flights now. They had a bit of a tedious journey down this morning, breaking trail in the new snow and pretty bad visibility early in the day, but they didn’t have too much problem with crevasses, and are happy to be in base…