For our last day, Pat has arranged a rental car so we can travel around Anchorage. We rent the most outrageous  pickup truck the 2017 Ford F150, it is simply awesome! Pat has spotted the best hike around Anchorage, flat top mountain a 20. Knitted drive from downtown. We are all getting ready, get out […]

Xav and I get dressed in our running gear and hit the pavement for an 8 km beautiful run & trail in Anchorage. REI has memorial days sale and we simply can’t resist. We also go to AMH and the hoarding marmot, 2 Mountaineering stores in the neighbourhood. In the afternoon I have 3 conf […]

(Featured photo: testing beers before picking one, its a brewery after all, might as well taste the beers!) We drive to Anchorage in the afternoon with Tom who totally messed up our pick up and departure time. He forgot he had to pick us up but in the end it all works out. Anchorage, amazing […]

Visibility has improved and we hear Kai shouting “pack your tent guys focus on your own gear, then on the common gear, we might be flying out soon, they are sending a probe plane to test the visibility and conditions” We are psyched and rush to gather all our stuff. Probe plane lands on the […]

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Weather: snowstorm We wake up to zero visibility. That’s not good and it means that no Otter ski planes will be able to land today. We hope for a clearing it in the afternoon, but it won’t come today. We want out now that we are at base camp. Easy day in the tent apart […]

Weather: cloudy It’s the long march we are going to walk down all the way to base camp from camp 4. Atmosphere is not great, Abdul and Daniel have turned quiet and distant. I guess we all react differently but it’s important to put things in perspective, we are safe and that’s what matters. Denali […]

(Featured Photo – credits Daniel Forbes: The Crevasse – Bergschrund after the fixed ropes) Weather: -38 night, -30 day As we wake up slowly and desperately wait for the sun to ‘warm our world’ as Kai puts it, we take a look at the summit ridge. It is in the clouds, it looks windy. It […]

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Altitude: from 4900 to 5200 This section is difficult. Ridge is not wide, crampons hit some uncovered rocks and become slippery, some sections have fixed ropes that are hard to clip into with very heavy packs, altitude is rising. All 3 of us are now quiet and fully focused no joking now, it’s a 2-3 […]