Trip Reports
A little garbled at the end, but the team is in their tents for the night at camp 2, 11k. This is the first camp at which they will start to feel the effects of altitude, mainly in a shortness of breath when moving around and shoveling. recording
Here’s Albert calling in from Everest Base Camp. The call is pretty broken up, but I gathered that they went down to the nearby village of Gorak Shep today, and our chef Serki is keeping them well fed. It’s a pretty bad recording, but it’s always nice to hear the voice of your friends from…
Were all settled in here at Base Camp. Very nice place to be. Hot showers, sushi for lunch, pizza for dinner, a fine selection of boxed Nepali wines, fresh baked croissants for breakfast, , and all morning sunshine! This is the time all of us are recovering from being up high. Some of the team…
Guide Sebastian Grau called in around quarter to 9pm AK time to do the daily check-in. Seba was in the cook tent; I could hear the stoves burning in the background melting snow into water. The rest of the expedition had gone to bed already after putting in a good day’s work breaking trail…
Here’s the call from Camp 1 after they returned from a day of trailbreaking through new snow up to their cache at 10,000 ft. recording
Lead guide Mike Burmeister called in to report that the team decided to stay in camp today. Although the clouds were nowhere to be seen, the wind decided to pick up in the morning, reaching an estimated 30mph. Yesterday’s move was a hard one and no one felt particularly excited to haul heavy packs into…
The team called in from Camp 1 this evening after a weather day due to high winds. It has been beautiful, and they are all doing great and looking forward to moving tomorrow. Click the link to listen to the call from the Kahiltna Glacier. recording
Up at 4.30am this morning and off to BC at 5.30am. Perfect, beautiful morning. Cold and clear descending to Camp 1 first through the lower Western Cwm, then into the Khumbu Icefall. Always a nervous place. Just last week a Sherpa from a different team had a fatal accident just below Camp 1 here. The…
Yoshiko called in from the first Mountain Trip Denali expedition of the season. They flew in on the 23rd, right on schedule, and moved up to Camp 1 yesterday. Sounds like they were breaking trail most of the way for the 5 mile stretch from base camp to Camp 1. All is well up there,…
Mountain Trip guide Yoshiko called in from camp 1 (7500′) at 10:30pm tonight to report that they had made a successful single carry from basecamp. Carrying the entire expedition in a single push is always a hard start on the first move day of the expedition, but the team ate a mountain-sized meal and were…