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Posted by: Dave Hahn, Hannah McGowan, Hannah Smith, Avery Parrinello
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Mt. McKinley
Elevation: 14,000'
On The Map
Posted by: Casey Grom, Kel Rossiter
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Mount Rainier
Elevation: 14,410'
Posted by: Mike King, Christina Dale
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Mexico
Way to go Mac and Fraser boys!! yahoo!
Posted by: Gary Lamberti on 9/21/2016 at 12:21 pm
WAY TO GO JOSH AND GROUP!! Proud of you big brother!! ❤️❤️
Posted by: Ali Arzt on 9/16/2016 at 12:57 pm
Posted by: Mike Haugen, Pepper Dee, Hannah McGowan
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Mt. McKinley
Elevation: 17,200'
Awesome job Mike, great pics. Great to be able to follow your progress. ODB rocks!
Posted by: graeme cooper on 6/28/2016 at 9:52 pm
Good luck Phil and Team El Siete. We are all counting on you. Kick Denali’s butt.
Posted by: E.L. on 6/28/2016 at 7:08 pm
On The Map
That’s awesome, congratulations to the team!
Posted by: John Arnold on 12/15/2015 at 7:30 am
Well Done!*
Posted by: Ron Birch on 12/15/2015 at 12:30 am
Posted by: Walter Hailes, JJ Justman
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Mount Rainier
Elevation: 14,410'
Posted by: Dominic Cifelli, Ben Luedtke
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Aconcagua
Elevation: 22,841'
January 22, 2025 - 7:24 am PT
Good news! RMI Guide Dominic Cifelli along with climbers Eric, Brian, and Ethan reached the top of Aconcagua at 12:15 local time. Reporting light winds and sunny. Beautiful day.
RMI Guide Ben Luedtke
New Post Alerts:
Aconcagua Expedition January 8, 2025
Friday, November 1, 2024
Cotopaxi Summit!
Yes, you heard that right. After a couple years of eruptive activity, the mountain is back open and today was the first Cotopaxi summit for RMI since December of 2021. In that time, a lot has changed.
The two years of eruptions have been characterized by frequent outbursts from the caldera in the form of ash plumes. This has led to a loss in glacial mass as the sun beats down on the dark material deposited on the usually reflective snow surface. The current numbers are not yet known, but also this is not a new part of the mountain's history. Cotopaxi is the second-highest active volcano in the world and has had numerous periods of activity in the past that have led to closures of the mountain for recreational purposes and threatened local communities. In fact, in the past 50 years, Cotopaxi has lost over 54% of it's glacial mass.
In addition to the ash, the country of Ecuador is experiencing its worst drought in 60 years. Due to both factors the route has changed dramatically. It routes through some different aspects of the mountain and is quite icy. The main obstacles we encountered today were moving through steep, icy terrain that at times required front pointing with crampons or the occasional swinging of our ice axes. One big factor did save our climb, which was the 6-8cm of fresh snowfall the mountain received yesterday. It deposited just enough snow on the surface to give a little more traction than the hard ice, but not so much to create avalanche hazards. We hope the snow in the mountains will continue, for the sake of the climbing routes; and more importantly, we hope for the people of Ecuador that this is marking the beginning of the wet season.
RMI Guide Dustin Wittmier
New Post Alerts:
Cotopaxi Express, October 26, 2024
On The Map
Hi David and Dave,
I hope your team stays clear of winds like we had during the successful 2016 RMI expedition. :-0
Is the food at Union Glacier camp still amazing - for being so far away from the “real world”.
Enjoy your days in the pristine antarctic environment.
I hope to climb with both of you again some day.
Keith L.
Posted by: Keith Loritz on 11/29/2018 at 12:55 pm
Jim, You be the MAN! Onward and upward indeed. I’ll be toasting you- and missing you- at the Casino cocktail party this weekend. Meanwhile, a stiff Kraken rum drink awaits at the Martin Box. Your pal at sea level, Peter
Posted by: Peter Krogh on 6/28/2017 at 6:49 am
My jaw hit the ground when I looked up where you are my friend! Incredible to see the pictures and progress you and your team are making. Be safe and I’ll see ya back in Ohio!!!
Posted by: Gary O'Donnell on 6/27/2017 at 8:13 pm
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