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Posted by: Jake Beren, Steve Gately, Megan Budge
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Mt. McKinley
Elevation: 14,200'
On The Map
Fantastic job Kev! Congratulations to you and the team and continued success coming down.
Cheers to all! Jeff Logeman
Posted by: Jeff Logeman on 2/5/2015 at 10:49 pm
Congratulations everyone!
Posted by: Ruthie on 2/5/2015 at 5:33 pm
RMI Guide Elias de Andres Martos checks in from the Machu Picchu trek.
Posted by: Adam Knoff, Lindsay Mann
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Mt. McKinley
Elevation: 11,200'
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On The Map
Look forward to your blogs daily. Sounds like everything is going well. Best to the team and guides. You guys are amazing.
JH
Posted by: Jerry on 6/24/2014 at 6:18 pm
Brother Dave, Alexander, Evan and Team,
We’re rooting for you in Minnesota! Stay safe and warm. We’ll follow the blog daily!
Posted by: Dianne Sullivan on 6/24/2014 at 2:04 pm
Posted by: Casey Grom
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Kilimanjaro
Hello from Tanzania,
All is well here in Tanzania and most of the team arrived late in the evening yesterday after some very long flights. It was a short and uneventful ride to our Lodge that is nestled in between Arusha and Moshi and not so far from the base of Kilimanjaro.
We had a very early morning today (3:30am) as there were several of us wanting to see the college football playoff. And so we had our first official meeting at 8am where we did a round of introductions and then discussed the upcoming program for the days ahead. We also addressed all the gear, the packing and our overall game plan for the trip.
The team spent the remainder of the day getting our gear organized, taking naps and exploring the grounds of our beautiful lodge, which is incredibly peaceful and has monkeys running around keeping us entertained.
We have just wrapped up the evening with a delicious meal and plenty of friendly conversations. Everyone is doing well and excited to hit the trail tomorrow and get a little bit of exercise.
RMI Guide Casey Grom and the Kili crew
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Kilimanjaro Climb & Safari January 9, 2025
Posted by: Seth Burns, Calvin Jiricko
Categories: Expedition Dispatches North Cascades
RMI Guides Seth Burns and Calvin Jiricko reached the summit of Forbidden Peak yesterday afternoon. The team had a beautiful day climbing in the North Cascades Range! The route to the summit of Forbidden Peak consists of climbing a small glacier below the South Face and then low 5th class rock and 40- to 50- degree snow and ice in the West Ridge Couloir. At the top of the couloir the team cached their glacier gear and don rock shoes for the enjoyable 5.0 to 5.6 rock climbing along the exposed crest to the summit.
The West Ridge of Forbidden is a true alpinist's classic. Congratulations Team!
Reminds me of Tuckerman Ravine in NH especially in early to mid May. Good job!
Posted by: John Buckett on 7/7/2024 at 6:07 pm
Congratulations on achieving another adventure!
Posted by: granny jay on 7/6/2024 at 11:07 am
Posted by: Daniel May, Roland Scott, Lacie Smith, Robert Whyte
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Mount Rainier
Elevation: 14,410'
The Expedition Skills Seminar - Emmons led by RMI Guide Dan May reached the Summit of Mt. Rainier at 11:32 am today! The team has spent the week training and perfecting their alpine skills, and today this hard work has paid off as they traversed the Emmons Glacier to reach the top. They will spend another night at Camp Schurman before descending.
Congratulations Team!
Posted by: Hannah Smith, Devin Guffey, Josh Geiser
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Mt. McKinley
Elevation: 11,200'
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Friday, June 8, 2024 8:43 pm PDT
Good evening readers!
We are writing to you from 11k Camp. Our day started early with an alpine start thinking it was going to be the wee hours of the morning when the weather would clear. That turned out to be incorrect. We woke to white all around us. We were in a cloud. You could barely see the tents up glacier. We dragged our feet and took a nap. After a few hours the clouds started to lift so we packed up our camp.
The walking was tough today. The trail Had been blown in with lots of snow. The trail breaking was slow and exhausting but we made hung in there and rolled into 11k Camp. Feels good to be higher on the mountain. Just one step closer to our goal. At dinner we filled our bellies with Annie's Mac and Cheese and now we are all ready for a much-deserved sleep. We are all looking forward to uninterrupted sleep tonight. Tomorrow we will head back downhill to our cache to be reunited with our gear.
Goodnight, all!
RMI Guide Hannah Smith and Team
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Denali Expedition June 2, 2024
Nothing to it but to do it. Onward and upwards
Posted by: PCash on 6/9/2024 at 6:28 am
Nice, guys! What a beautiful picture! Shane, hopefully that dried broccoli went right in the mac nom nom. Excited for the next update!
Posted by: Tara Kallembach on 6/8/2024 at 9:33 am
The RMI Kilimanjaro September 16th team reached the summit of Kilimanjaro, 19.340'! All team members climbed strong and were all at the summit together.
The team has descended and is currently at Mweka Camp, 10,000', their final camp of the climb.
Way to go team!
Congrats to everyone…my son and I accomplished the climb exactly 6 years ago… unforgeteble
Posted by: Steve Wahman on 9/27/2023 at 4:27 pm
Way to Go Lacey!!!
Farmer Dave
Posted by: Dave Kestel on 9/25/2023 at 3:42 am
Posted by: Pete Van Deventer, Nick Sinapius, Ben Thorneycroft
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Alaska
Elevation: 14,000'
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Tuesday, May 20, 2025 - 9:59 pm PT
We had a brief burst of excitement waking up this morning as it was clearer than it’s been in awhile, but as we watched and inspected more closely, it was quite clear that the wind was quite strong along the West Buttress. We continued to watch and hope, but by mid morning it was evident that today was a day to rest. The sun did spend a good amount of time out, turning the tents into saunas. Several skiers in camp also went for laps below the fixed lines, so we watched the ski show as well. We’ll keep getting up early to check and see if it is our day and when it presents, the team is primed and ready!
RMI Guide Pete Van Deventer
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Denali Expedition May 8, 2025
Keep the updates coming! You can’t send too much info for all the folks down here, waiting for you to get back. Get the show on the road, and hurry home! Love you Brian!
Posted by: Maxine Hill on 5/21/2025 at 5:40 pm
Sending positive thoughts and good vibes!!
Posted by: Brittany on 5/21/2025 at 11:11 am
Cheryl, I’m almost unbearably proud to call a woman like you one of my dearest.
Cheerleading so ridiculously hard with my five star dance moves for you ! (I’d like to think in a way that would make you turn bright red and step slightly to the side - the psych is that real)
Mind
Over
Matter
Keep crushing! You’ve already reached the summit of my heart .
Hugs ❤️
Sarah
Posted by: Sarah on 6/9/2017 at 12:17 pm
Jake Jirsa - We’re watching you! Keep it up man. You’re only a few inches from the top on the map!
Posted by: Jim and Kerynn on 6/9/2017 at 11:42 am
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