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)
Paul called on Friday the 18th at 7:10 Pacific time with the following update:
Hey everyone. This is Paul and the team calling from 11,000 feet. We’ve had a great day today. We back-carried this morning, going down to 10,500 and bringing up the supplies that we had cached there. The cache was so high it made it a pretty easy day for us, so this has really been more like a rest day.
The weather has been odd. Changing a lot. We’re actually above a cloud layer at the moment.
Everyone is doing well. We’re all in good health and glad to be here. Tomorrow we are gong to climb to Windy Corner and place a cache just beyond it at 13,500 feet. We’ll give a call in the evening and let you know how it goes. That’s it for now. Talk to you soon.”
While Paul was on the phone, we read the group the comments that Michel and Joseph posted on the blog for Amboura and Andrew! Keep the communications coming and we will pass the messages on.
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