August 16, 2010 Craig Hill over at the Tacoma News Tribune sat down with Jason awhile ago to chat about his climbing career as well as a 1 day climb of one of Mt. Rainier’s toughest and most technical routes – Liberty Ridge. ———————————— 1 mountain, 1 day, 2 fast climbers on Liberty Ridge Craig […]
August 15, 2010 IMG guide Andy Politz reports by sat phone that the Kili team reached Barafu camp (15,000 feet) Â today by lunchtime. Â Everyone is doing well and the weather remains excellent. After lunch the team had plenty of time to get packed up for the summit climb tonight and have a good lazy afternoon […]
August 14, 2010 IMG guide Andy Politz reports by sat phone that the team had a great day of hiking today and all are doing well at the Karanga camp (about 13,000 feet). The weather has been great and they are above the clouds. Today they left the Barranco camp, climbed up and over the […]
August 13, 2010 Phil called in this afternoon to report that all is well in Moscow. Their flight from Mineral Vody was on schedule and it looks like the haze from the forest fires are lifting a little in Moscow. The team will enjoy one last day of sight seeing with visits to the Kremlin […]
August 12, 2010 Phil called in this afternoon to report the team made their way off Elbrus yesterday and enjoyed a nice tour of the Cheget ski area. They took a chair lift up to the top and stretched the legs on a short hike to a nice little mountain lake. After a great lunch […]
August 12, 2010 Eric Stevenson dropped us a line from Machu Picchu last night: “We are down, showered, happy, fed, tired, and ready for bed. The plan is to head to the museum in the morning, then head back to Cusco tomorrow afternoon [real time = today]. All is good and I’ll get in touch […]
August 12, 2010 IMG guide Andy Politz reported by sat phone that that the team members are all doing well. Today they climbed from Machame Camp to Shira Camp (about 12,500 feet) via a steep section of trail that winds up a ridge to the Shira Plateau. Again, they had no rain but cloudy skies […]
August 11, 2010 IMG guide Andy Politz reports from Machame Camp that the Kili team had a good day today and everyone is doing well. Yesterday they organized their gear in Moshi and this morning headed up to the trailhead in 4WD vehicles. There was no rain today, but enough clouds to keep it cool […]
August 10, 2010 Phil called in late last night/early this morning… 10 of 12 customers on the summit today! Beautiful weather, warm, minimal amount of wind and good snow conditions made for a great climb. We have 1 more night at the hut at 13,400′ on the side of the mountain. We’ll be heading down […]
August 9, 2010 Phil called in from Russia around 3:30am this morning (remember they’re +11 hours from us here on the west coast) We had a good acclimatization hike today up about 1500ft. above the hut on Elbrus. The weather continues to be cooperative and we’re hopeful about a summit attempt tonight. So, our plan […]
