Denali Team 4: May 22 to June 11
Guides: Angela Seidling, Ben Traxler, and Erik Johnson
Climbers: Llew Gartrell (Australia), Nicholas Durack (UK), Peter Grant (UK), Edward Iglesias (Australia), Paul Watkins (Australia), Jon Cook (UK), and Martin Halion (UK).
Lead Guide Angela Seidling calling in at 11pm on May 23 with the following dispatch:
“Hi this is Angela from Team 4. We started off the morning at base camp enjoying some delicious cinnamon rolls from The Roadhouse in Talkeetna. We spent the rest of the morning reviewing skills, including sled packing and rigging, snowshoeing, glacier travel and all sorts of other fun stuff.
We finally made it out of camp at 12:30pm and began making our way up the Kahiltna towards Camp 1. It beautiful weather, in fact it was almost too hot! Luckily there was a steady breeze that made things a little more comfortable temperature wise. We pulled into Camp 1 at 6pm, set up camp and made dinner. Now we are all off to bed to get rest for our cache day tomorrow.
I’ve got a few messages from team members: Jon says that he is enjoying himself very much. Peter sends his love to his family. Eric, Ben and I would also like to send a big thanks to Tony for the additional supplies he flew in! OK, that’s it for now.”