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RMI Guides Leon Davis & Ben Liken led their
Four Day Summit Climb Teams for August 27 - 30, 2016 to the summit of Mt. Rainier this morning. The teams experienced cloudy and windy conditions on their ascent. Both teams reached the crater rim around 8 am PT and were able to spend some time on top before starting their descent.
We look forward to seeing them at Rainier BaseCamp later today.
Congratulations to today's climbers!
After several days of bad weather and high avalanche danger keeping the teams from reaching the summit, today's
Four Day Summit Climb Team was able to stand on the summit of Mt. Rainier.
RMI Guides Billy Nugent and Leon Davis and their teams were able to take some photos and enjoy the views before beginning their descent from the descent from the crater rim just before 9 am PT. The teams will return to Camp Muir and then continue down to Paradise.
Congratulations to today's climbers!
Hello again everyone
All is well here in
Ecuador. Today the team spent the morning relaxing a bit and enjoying the beautiful surroundings and practicing some technical rope work that will hopefully come in handy tomorrow. Then a few folks went on a horseback ride while the rest of us relaxed around the hacienda. We wrapped the afternoon with a little more training and good conversations.
Our plan is to head to bed soon and get up around 5am to start our climb which is just a few miles down the road. If the weather continues we hope to summit and make our way back to Quito by mid to late afternoon.
It's sad to think our adventure is nearly over, but I am sure everyone is excited to return to their loved ones.
We'll check in again tomorrow. That's all for today.
RMI Guide Casey Grom and crew
RMI Guide Pete Van Deventer and the
Mt. Baker Easton Glacier August 1 - 3 team reached the summit this morning around 6:30 AM PT with 100% of their team members.
The team will make a complete descent today and conclude their program this afternoon.
Congratulations to the team!
The Mexico team is back safe at Sr. Reyes' climbers hostel after a long summit day on
Pico de Orizaba. Following our dusty drive down from the hut we spent the evening cleaning gear and packing for our flights tomorrow. This trip flew by and we were fortunate to have great weather, two summits and a wonderful group of climbers. Thanks for following along!
RMI Guide Mike King
The
Expedition Skills Seminar - Emmons Team led by RMI Guide Geoff Schellens reached the summit of Mt. Rainier early this morning. Geoff and team had a great day of climbing with warm temps and clear skies. The team will spend the remaining time on the mountain training before returning to Rainier Basecamp tomorrow afternoon.
Congratulations to today's team!
This is your
ESS-Peru team checking in from our hotel in Huaraz. We awoke early this morning to yet another amazing breakfast of scrambled eggs, garlic toast, and espresso from our cooks Emilio and Franklin. It proved to be just what we needed after a long day climbing to almost 19,000' yesterday, to make the descent from Pisco Base Camp to the trailhead to catch our bus back to civilization. We're spending the afternoon here in the hotel cleaning up and prepping for a celebratory dinner, to relive the amazing adventure we've had over the past two weeks in the Cordillera Blanca. It's been an incredible journey in arguably one of the most beautiful mountain ranges in the world. Tomorrow, we begin the drive back towards the ocean, and onto planes in Lima, back to our loved ones in the States. Until then, buenos noches.
RMI Guides Robby Young, Eric Frank, Edwin, and your ESS-Peru Team
RMI Guides
Dave Hahn and
Ben Liken led their teams to the
Mt. Rainier summit! After some light now and 5 mph winds for the ascent, the weather has improved to blue skies and no wind as they topped out. At 9:30 a.m. the teams began their descent back to Camp Muir.
Congratulations to today's summit teams!
We enjoyed an amazingly perfect day on our first push above
Aconcagua Basecamp. Despite the good weather our loads were big and the route up to Camp 1 was quite different than in years past. Lots of penitentes (tall, spiky snow features) made for difficult walking at times and a new route across the glacial remnant below the final scree slopes into camp. Despite these challenges our team remained true to form and moved extremely well ultimately putting in a big cache of gear, food, and fuel at over 16,000'. We are resting/acclimatizing tomorrow in basecamp before we head out on the upper mountain for good. All is well here in Plaza Argentina and the team is looking forward to the coming days.
Talk tomorrow,
RMI Guide Billy Nugent
Team Orlando just enjoyed their first day of our
African safari! We spent the day with camera in hand watching elephants, zebras, hippos and much much more! I really would like to write more to describe everything but I'm going to be selfish...because Africa is Awesome! I'm outta here because I'm going to join the team in a glass of wine while we watch the sunset at the Plantation Lodge.
RMI Guide
JJ Justman & Team
Did the Merz brothers all make it.
Posted by: Suzi Merz on 8/30/2016 at 1:15 pm
Congratulations on your achievement Maahi! Can’t wait to see you and all the pics. Miss you…. Susmita
Posted by: Susmita Jasti on 8/30/2016 at 10:13 am
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