Dave called from high camp this morning and said it was blowing even harder up high on Denali today and they were going to have to descend. They've given it a good shot, but just got unlucky with the weather. It has been an unusually long stretch of wind and snow up high on the mountain and they never got a chance to summit. It's unfortunate, they all worked very hard to get to high camp and be in position. Possibly the hardest part is waiting around for the weather when there are no guarantees that it will ever get nice. They gave it a good shot, but part of climbing big mountains is that the outcome is never guaranteed and sometimes you just need a bit of luck.
They plan to descend to Camp 2 (11,200 ft) tonight, and then keep going to base camp tomorrow morning.
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