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Posted by: Mark Tucker
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Kilimanjaro
Posted by: Leon Davis, Bridget Belliveau
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Posted by: Tyler Jones, Geoff Schellens
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Mt. McKinley
Congrats to the team! I can’t wait to hear more about the trip and see more pictures. Love you Jake and hope to see you soon
Posted by: Bonnie Garfield on 6/24/2014 at 8:33 am
Tyler, Garrett and Geoff….well done and thank you from all of the John Stenderup family. The RMI experience for John included weather adversity and other circumstances that will be life long lessons for all of your teams. Your superb training enabled some to summit and prevented possible disaster for others. I, and I hope John also, will forever retain “the summit is for the ego and the journey is for the soul” incantation. Thank you. Best Regards, Kent Stenderup
Posted by: Kent Stenderup on 6/23/2014 at 10:13 pm
Posted by: Billy Nugent, Walter Hailes, Katrina Bloemsma
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Aconcagua
We are all thinking about you and send our love and prayers for a safe climb! Erle, Erle, Donald, Djr. and John
Posted by: Erle Broughton on 1/12/2015 at 11:41 am
Posted by: Dominic Cifelli
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Torres del Paine
We have arrived at Refugio Grey!!
Today is one of the hardest days of the trek, certainly the hardest of the “O” portion of the trek. That meant that getting up before the sun, scarfing down our warm breakfast that was mostly coffee, and heading out and up up up. We ascend right out of the gate up a muddy and thin trail as we navigate the last bits of the forest before the tree line. The bitter Patagonian wind woke up before the sun too and was there to greet us as soon as the trees left us.
Wind, cold, rain, snow, but never too much of any. We persevered up the John Gardner pass and over to the other side of the circuit. And my goodness was a view. People are often asking if the glaciers they are looking at are part of the Patagonian Icefield but one good look at the Grey glacier from the pass and it’s clear to all. As dark as the eye can see right and left is rugged, broken, beautiful glacier.
7 more hours of a big descent plus the traverse along the glacier brought us to the Refugio we’re at tonight and although there were no games tonight, there will be plenty of good sleeps.
Tomorrow we continue to Paine Grande, the biggest Refugio in the park and the perfect spot to maybe catch a Super Bowl moment or two!
RMI Guide Dominic Cifelli
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Torres del Paine Trek February 1, 2025
Posted by: Dominic Cifelli, Ben Luedtke, Michael Murray
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Aconcagua
Elevation: 2,449'
Today we walked.
It was a dusty, rocky, hot, and dry 15 miles from Mulas Basecamp to the park trailhead. In front of us sprawled an immense valley. Behind us, clear views of the summit we stood upon just a few short days ago.
A perfect setting for reflection.
Some thought back to the summit bid with all the challenges and struggles that came with it.
Others looked forward to the Michelin Star dinner that awaits us in Mendoza tonight. With FKTs being broken to meet the reservation.
Still others spoke of future climbing plans such as Mt. Vinson or Denali.
All in all we started this journey as strangers just a few short weeks ago. But we leave the Park as friends, by our shared experience of climbing Aconcagua.
Thank you for following along, we can't wait till we're back out in the mountains for our next objectives.
Climber Jon Honda
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Aconcagua Expedition January 12, 2024
Hi family and friends!
We woke up rested this morning finally starting to leave that jet lag behind.
After a delicious breakfast complete with fresh avocado, eggs, local yams and of course, pitchers of coffee, we hit the trail up a rocky ridge. The sun was shining but we watched the clouds build behind us all morning, crossing our fingers we’d make it to camp before the rains.
We walked above the trees, seeing our first views of the lush rainforest below and the snowy upper slopes of Kilimanjaro above. Everyone moved steady and fluid. We saw wild flowers and the first of many senecios trees. Making sure to take all the photos.
Just before arriving to camp, we stopped to put on our shell jackets and pants as the rain came. It was our lucky day because by the time we arrived at camp - the clouds had passed and the sun was peaking through. After a wonderful lunch at Shira Camp, we worked to dry out all our wet gear in preparation for a big day tomorrow.
This team is special and we know this experience is as well. We can’t wait to see what tomorrow holds!
RMI Guides Jess Wedel, Casey Grom and the crew
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Kilimanjaro Climb & Safari, January 20, 2024
Posted by: Dave Hahn
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Kilimanjaro
We are at high camp!
Barafu -which means ice in Swahili. We got here nice and early, just after 11 AM. It only took about three hours to gain the two thousand vertical feet from Karanga Camp. The team came in smiling and all together and excited to finally be here, in place for a summit bid. The day ended up a little cloudy, with a snowflake or two in the air but that hasn’t bothered us. Benson treated us to a nice lunch and then we sat down with Naiman -our lead guide- to talk in detail about the summit and how we’ll prepare for it.
We are resting and organizing this afternoon, getting used to the altitude and catching up on our hydration. An early dinner is in order -Spaghetti at 5:30- and then we’re going into the tents for a rest. It will be an Alpine start; we aim to be walking at midnight.
Wish us a little luck, please.
Best Regards,
RMI Guide Dave Hahn & Team
So proud of you Vanessa! Wishing you a beautiful summit adventure.
Love you a whole bunch!
Posted by: Jessica on 8/13/2023 at 5:29 am
Sean and gang- we hope everyone made it to the summit today- We are all proud of you Sean .
Tina and SBLEA Union
Posted by: Tina Oxford on 8/13/2023 at 3:26 am
I’m so happy for the accomplishment y’all have achieved AND for the opportunity now to relax and enjoy your safari days! Congrats on 30 years to Robin and Rhonda. ❤️
It was so good to hear from the Carters yesterday! We love you and can’t WAIT to see you Sunday.
Posted by: Tami Reitinger on 7/25/2019 at 9:03 am
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