July 25, 2018 OK, we live in the Pacific Northwest so we are used to rain. There is a reason the rain forest grows so thick down at the base of Kilimanjaro (and in WA State!). It’s because it rains sometime, even during the “dry†season. That’s why on Kili you need to be ready for any […]
July 24, 2018 Our Mongolia team enjoyed some fantastic weather during their climb and it held out for their trek to White River Campground in Mongolia. Charlotte checked in to report that it was a great day, visiting a local family in their Ger (Yurt) and taking in the beautiful White River. The river is correctly named […]
July 24, 2018 Phunuru Sherpa reports from Moshi that our next Kilimanjaro team members have arrived and are doing well, and that everyone is excited to start the climb. We’ve been having a good Kili season so far, but it has been rather unusual with significant snow up high on the mountain left over from […]
June 28, 2018 Another busy day on Mt. Rainier today! Justin Merle and his Disappointment Cleaver team stood on the summit early this morning, shortly thereafter was Mike Haft and his Kautz Team. Hot on their trails is Luke Reilly and his Glacier Skills Seminar who pulled into Camp Muir today after three days of […]
June 22, 2018 Two teams. Two routes. Two teams summit! Yesterday IMG Chief Guide, Justin Merle and his Emmons team summited Mt. Rainier. Having summited yesterday makes the walk out to the trailhead today all that much more enjoyable today. The team is safely back in Ashford celebrating a successful climb! On the DC Route […]
June 15, 2018 The winters can be pretty long here in the PNW, but those winters pay pretty nice dividends during the climbing season, and we do our best to take full advantage of the season. This means we see some pretty busy weeks and months, with weekend and upcoming week as a prime […]
June 12, 2018 It’s always a good day when one of our teams calls in from the summit of Mt. Rainier; today was no exception. Our Disappointment Cleaver Team battled the cold temps and reached the summit in good form this morning. They’ve made their way down the Muir Snowfield and are now looking forward […]
June 6, 2018 The hardest decisions are often ones that don’t give you definitive closure. Frustrating to say the least. Mountain guides are forced into this decision more often than most, and certainly with more on the line than most. We saw that yesterday on the Emmons route with Dallas and his team when they […]
May 2, 2018 The first IMG climb of the Mt. Rainier season is just a few days away and we’re not letting those days go to waste. This morning our newly hired guides gathered at IMG for our annual new guide training. The goal for these three days is to get them up to […]
April 30, 2018 Every spring IMG Guides come together for our annual Guide Training weekend just before the start of the Rainier climbing season. This year we packed the room with 37 Guides. Saturday is typically reserved for getting to know the new guides (10 this year), discussing any new protocols, a refresher on […]
