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Posted by: Steve Gately, Bryan Mazaika
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Mount Rainier
Elevation: 14,410'
Congratulations Mike, Jack, Caitlyn and Will!
Posted by: Maureen Scholl on 8/14/2017 at 9:17 am
Posted by: Pete Van Deventer, Jenny Konway, Jess Matthews
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Mt. McKinley
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The extent some will go to to have such a breakfast -amazing. Frostbite not nice - hope those Koreans not too serious. We also find your waiting game frustrating - maybe tomorrow lots of sunshine, no snow or wind. Current camp is getting crowded - good to share experiences with other teams.Always look forward to your next report. - take care and safe climbing.P andV.
Posted by: Phil and Vonne Calvert on 5/27/2017 at 6:16 pm
Go Rachel and Mark!! We’re cheering you on from balmy Houston, Texas! Thanks for the updates - makes for nice breaks from chasing the tots. You two are amazing!
Posted by: Kate Patrick on 5/27/2017 at 6:08 pm
Posted by: Elias de Andres Martos, Robby Young
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Peru Seminar
Elevation: 17,060'
RMI Guide Elias de Andres Martos calls in from Copa High Camp.
Good luck on the BIG summit today!
Posted by: Sandy Sawyer on 7/7/2016 at 5:59 am
Good luck and I hope you make the summit today!
Mike Mangano
Posted by: Mike mangano on 7/7/2016 at 3:44 am
Posted by: Elias de Andres Martos, Robby Young
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Peru Seminar
Elevation: 10,000'
Posted by: Dave Hahn, Ben Liken, Bridget Belliveau, Hannah Smith
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Mt. McKinley
Elevation: 348'
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Best of luck Team 8, everyone from Texas to Grand Cayman is cheering for y’all and we’ll be watching as you make your way to the top! Safe climbing and enjoy the ride David Schnautz, love ya long time!
Posted by: Sondra Schnautz on 6/23/2016 at 7:29 pm
KirkMan - Proud of you Bro! Miss you already!
Posted by: Charles Holliman on 6/23/2016 at 2:51 pm
Posted by: Casey Grom
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Kilimanjaro
Hello one last time everyone!
Today the team headed to Tarangire National Park know for its abundant animals and plentiful elephants, and it didn’t disappoint. Not sure how many elephants we saw, probably several hundred, possibly more than a thousand. It wouldn’t seem like we could get tired of seeing elephants, but there were so many that eventually we had to keep driving so we could see other animals.
There were lots of giraffes, zebras, wildebeest, Cape buffalo, impalas, monkeys, ostriches, and many others, including 6-8 lions which was a highlight.
We are spending our last night here in Africa at Nyikani Camp, which has beautiful tented rooms with screen windows to allow the sounds of the African night in. If you’ve ever heard the term “Glamping” that’s exactly what we are doing.
Everyone is doing great and we hope to catch a sighting of a few more cats on our way out tomorrow. Then we will head back to our main lodge near Arusha for a quick shower before catching our evening flights home.
I asked everyone for a single word that would best summarize their experience for this trip.
So in no particular order here are our words.
Overcome
WOW
Perseverance
Transformative
Humbling
Determined
Indomitable
Connection
Fulfilling
Simple
Transcendent
Come join us for an adventure sometime!
RMI Guide Casey Grom and the safari crew
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Kilimanjaro Climb & Safari September 2, 2025
Friday, October 11, 2024
After our rainy summit of Volcan La Malinche, our team was pretty excited to see sun pop up in the forecast. We headed toward Volcan Iztaccihuatl (Ixta) excited for our next summit.
At our regular food and water pit stop in Amecameca (my favorite word) our local guide Allan had some bad news. The rains from Hurricane Milton had caused the park service to close the road, and we would have a 9 kilometer hike to our normal parking/basecamp area. This was sad to hear, as it made a summit of Ixta a hard proposition. But we quickly brainstormed and decided we would trek to basecamp, then get as far up Ixta as possible. This would give us great altitude training for our biggest goal, Orizaba at 18,500’.
The next day we hiked through pleasant tall grass meadows and pine trees and camped at our normal basecamp at 13,000’. In the morning we woke to a ‘practice’ alpine start at 3:00am, and were finally greeted by stars and the moon.
On our climb to 15,500’ we watched a colorful sunrise and Volcan Popocatepetl puffing away across the valley. All in all a spectacular altitude training day.
Trekking back through the pine tree meadows, everyone was excited to get to Puebla for pizza, a nice night in a hotel, then to our final volcano, Pico de Orizaba!
RMI Guide Joe Hoch
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Categories: Expedition Dispatches Mount Rainier
The Five Day Climb June 15 - 19 ascend to Camp Muir on Day 3 after a day and a half training and preparing. They spent Day 4 of their program practicing cramponing up Muir peak and fixed line travel, and went over knots and hitches. RMI Guide Casey Grom and two other guides went up high doing some route work and shoveling the new snow from Disappointment Cleaver. Today the team went to Ingraham Flats and watched the sunrise over Muir peak and western Washington. Unfortunately unstable snow conditions from Monday's storm prevented from safely climbing any higher. The team will descend to Paradise later this morning and conclude their program later this afternoon at Rainier BaseCamp.
PC: Tatum Whatford
Honey, I’m so excited that you made it to the top. It looks absolutely beautiful! I hope it was everything you expected it to be.
Posted by: Trica on 5/26/2018 at 4:57 pm
Outstanding job to the Team! Andrew you never cease to amaze us…
Posted by: Adrianne and Michael on 5/26/2018 at 12:52 pm
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