Denali Team 5: June 13–July 3
Guides: Paul Ivaska, Richard Riquelme, Kristen Looper
Apprentice: Andrew Yasso
Climbers: Walt, Ann, and Luke Hampton (Canton, Connecticut), Caitriona Strain (Burnfoot, Ireland), Brendan McDyer (Glenties, Ireland), Skye O’Donnell (Sydney, Australia), Colin Stalnecker (Chicago, Illinois), Ryan Derrigan (Rickmansworth, England), and Stephen Williams (Oxon, United Kingdom)
Richard called on Tuesday the 15th at 2:30pm with the following update:
“Hello! This is Richard calling from Camp One at 7,000 feet. We arrived around 9:45am this morning. Right now everyone is happily taking a nap and resting up. Everyone did really well today and is feeling well. We just finished setting up the sleeping tents and the cook tent – with appropriate shelves and seats for our high standard of chef prepared meals! I’m preparing dinner, which will be built around couscous which will serve as the base.
After dinner we will head for bed for the rest of the day. We’ve decided to move on the graveyard schedule. We’ll be climbing at night to take advantage of the cooler temperatures and firmer conditions on the glacier. It’s still snowing, but it’s considerably warmer than it was earlier. We have good visibility despite the snow.
Thank you for all of the good wishes and comments. We’ll call again tomorrow.”
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