They had an adventurous day getting back down to base camp today. Dave Hill jumped into a crevasse, but was pulled out right away and is laughing about it now. It's always exciting to have someone fall into a crevasse, but that's why we travel on a rope on the glacier.
The weather is continuing to work against the climbers, and the planes couldn't fly into the Alaska Range today due to low clouds and bad visibility. The small planes that fly into base camp and land on the snowy glacier can only fly when they can see where they are going. There isn't an instrument approach to the Kahiltna glacier, so they fly by Visual Flight Rules. You can check out the view of the Alaska Range from Talkeetna on the link for the webcam to the right ---->
Their biggest concern now is running out of the beer they stashed at base camp before the planes can pick them up.
Here's Dave Hill from BC this afternoon.
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