Trip Reports
After patiently waiting for three days at high camp, Mike feels that conditions are good enough to attempt a summit bid. They are teamed up with another Mountain Trip team and will travel together throughout the day. Stay tuned for updates.
Pi, Zack and Qobin are leaving high camp in a few minutes to see if conditions will permit a summit bid. They are joined by another Mountain Trip team who have been holding at high camp for a few days, and they all plan to travel together today. They are going to keep me updated,…
I’m here at the Mountain Trip house looking at Dave Ahrens and his crew. The entire team is safely back in town, so look for a post-expedition report from him soon. Aaron called and we chatted about the trip, and it sure sounds like they had a great time. The weather was nice on the…
The Northwest Buttress team has summitted the north summit of Denali at 19,470′. They left their high camp at 16,400′ yesterday and finished climbing the last section of the Northwest buttress to the north summit. They were out of communication but contacted a Mountain Trip team camped at the 17,200′ camp on the West Buttress…
The team is considering going for the top today, and judging from the Talkeetna Air Taxi webcam, it sure looks like a beauty! We have three teams poised to summit today, so maybe they’ll have a Mountain Trip party on the summit. We’ll keep you posted as the day unfolds.
It sounds like Qobin, Pi and Zach Quine had a pretty nice day as they moved up to high camp today. From their description, the weather was a bout as good as it ever gets up there today! They left the comfort of the large 14,200′ (4328m) camp and climbed up about 400m of moderately…
Markus called in after a good, hard day of carrying loads up the steep Headwall and onto the beautiful ridge that leads to the 17,200′ high camp. This is the steepest part of the entire route, and the team employed the use of ascenders, or mechanical rope clamps, which they affixed to 600′ of rope…
The crew sounds great after enjoying a Thanksgiving dinner! They moved up from 11,200′ today, which is a long, hard push. They had to climb up and out of the basin in which they were camped and onto the first steep slopes of the route. They donned crampons and worked their way up two long…
We just heard about another accident on Denali that occurred last night. This was not a Mountain Trip team. All our climbers are doing fine at this time. Details are not clear at this time, but apparently four climbers roped together fell while descending from Denali Pass. Two of the climbers did not survive. We…
Eric Larson’s expedition took a rest day at high camp yesterday, and reported a change of plans. The expedition is now attempting to climb the upper West Rib, which means they can leave from 14k camp on the West Buttress instead of descending to the Northeast Fork and starting the route from there. This means…