Climbing Mount Denali in the Alaska Range is a very challenging task. Mount Denali is North America's tallest peak standing at 20,310 ft (6,190 m). Climbing Mount Denali takes a lot of training and mental fortitude. Mount Denali often has brutal conditions adding to the challenge. Our aim to climbing Mount Denali was to take the West Buttress route over the course of 2-3 weeks.
Unfortunately, our attempt at climbing Mount Denali was cut short due to some sort of GI bug (thank goodness for antibiotics). We got pretty sick the night before we were set to move to camp V which left us too exhausted to continue climbing at higher elevation. Our symptoms resolved after 2.5 days, but it was enough to derail the remainder of our expedition on Mount Denali.
This is obviously not the result we'd hoped for. We were devastated by this. All the months of training and dedication that went into it were upended by an uncontrollable factor like getting sick on the mountain. Denali is a beast, and you need to be at your best to climb. We understood the risk we'd be putting the rest of our team at if we tried to continue.
We were still able to enjoy parts of the climb and we certainly learned a few things about ourselves. At the end of the day, we were still able to have another adventure together and that's what truly matters!
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00:00 Flying onto Kahiltna Glacier
01:52 Trekking from base camp to camp 1 at 7,800 ft
05:22 Moving to camp 2 at 9,600 ft
06:40 Moving to camp 3 at 11,200 ft
08:51 Caching supplies at 13,500 past Windy Corner
11:43 Moving to camp 4 at 14,000 ft
13:07 Backcarry from camp 4 to get cache at 13,500 ft
14:42 Caching supplies at 16,200 ft ridge above fixed lines
18:24 Move to camp 5 at 17,200 ft
18:44 Devastation and heart break
19:50 Descent back to base camp
22:18 Flying off Kahiltna Glacier back to Talkeetna
21 июл 2024
