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Posted by: Steve Gately, Hannah McGowan
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Aconcagua
Elevation: 18,000'
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Posted by: Seth Burns, Jackson Breen, Raymond Holt
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Mt. McKinley
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Friday, May 16, 2025 - 10:19 pm PDT
We started our day with breakfast at latitude 62 and ended our day with dinner at latitude 62. Can anyone guess where our day will start tomorrow?!
We spent the morning talking about the finer points of Denali climbing while learning and practicing some new skills. In the afternoon, our pilots at K2 along with the Denali base camp manager saw a break in the weather. Giddy with excitement, we loaded up the plane with all of our bags, put on our mountain clothes, and patiently waited for our chance for take off. Unfortunately, mountain weather can be a fickle beast and the mountain wasn't ready to let us in just yet. We became mesmerized by some classic Denali climbing films and fantasized about when we would soon be in those very spots.
Waiting is inevitable in the mountains, but always hard, especially at the beginning of a trip. I could not be more proud of our team's attitude. They are taking everything in stride and with a smile. We are enjoying constant laughs, telling stories, and building camaraderie that will enable us to run when our feet hit the ground. We will be ready to fly when our time comes. Hopefully that time is tomorrow morning!
RMI Guides Jackson, Ray, Seth and Team
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Posted by: Robby Young, JT Schmitt
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Mount Rainier
Elevation: 14,410'
Awesome job team. What a great way to inspire all of us. Safe descent my friends
Posted by: Stuart Nyren on 8/9/2018 at 10:01 am
Way to go Robby and team! It’s amazing to me that you were just up the four days ago- what you guys do is inspiring and RMI guides are rockstars!
Posted by: Casey Bradshaw on 8/9/2018 at 8:35 am
Congratulations Cory and Tim. So happy for you guys.
Love, Tina, Dan, and kids.
Posted by: Tina on 7/18/2017 at 8:27 am
This is Susie from Dave’s 4 day trip that shared some time with you on the mountain. Congratulations!!! I am so happy for you! What a huge accomplishment!! It was a pleasure meeting some of you and I hope to run into you again in our life journeys. Congratulations on reaching the summit!
Posted by: Susie Lambert on 8/1/2016 at 7:17 pm
Amazing job!!!! Can’t wait to hear all about it!
Posted by: Beth on 8/1/2016 at 11:25 am
What is the outlook for Tues and Wed? No summits the past 3 days.
Posted by: Jamie Adams on 7/10/2016 at 11:49 am
Posted by: Brent Okita, Solveig Waterfall
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Mount Rainier
Elevation: 14,410'
Posted by: Pete Van Deventer, Christina Dale
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Mount Rainier
Elevation: 12,300'
Congratulations! Just watch those big steps on the way down! It’s 90 degrees in Green Bay—so that snow looks pretty good!
Posted by: Nana and Gramps. on 9/24/2017 at 11:52 am
We always knew the sky was the limit for our beautiful God daughters!! Safe down kiddos. Congrats
Posted by: Marcy and Mick OMalley on 9/24/2017 at 11:00 am
Christmas morning has been exciting and eventful as expected but we miss you. Love you very much! Hope your Christmas meal is as yummy as ours.
Posted by: Jennifer, Adam, Susan, Rowan and Sawyer on 12/25/2016 at 5:29 am
Merry Christmas Hannah and the team!
Maybe up there in the thin air you’ll be able to clearly see Santa, Rudolf and the reindeers!
Sending y’all warmth and merriment, with much admiration for your courage.
Love and care for each other up there and I look forward to hearing your stories.
With love,
Hannah’s mom
Posted by: Lisa Nezwazky on 12/24/2016 at 1:28 pm
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