Climbing and Running
7 marathons. 7 continents. 7 years.
By the River
July 12, 2008 by Mitch Lewis · Leave a Comment
Sandra, Mitch, Alex, Paula and Sam in Talkeetna On Saturday morning we got up and sorted through all of our equipment and gear to get packed up in the duffel bag and pack for the return journey. We had a 1/2 standard breakfast at the Roadhouse Cafe again (eggs, toast, bacon, hashbrowns, tea and juice). [...]
Final Descent and The Long Wait
July 11, 2008 by Mitch Lewis · 1 Comment
We rushed down to 7800′ without snowshoes and the walking was great. The moon was out, the light from the night was amazing and to know we were so close and climbing in the middle of the night with great tunes playing in my ears was wonderful We could see Venus in the distant horizon. [...]
More Descent
July 10, 2008 by Mitch Lewis · Leave a Comment
We awoke around 9am and tried to sleep in as we were not due to leave until the evening and travel all night when the snow would be firm and solid. I talked to Linda for the first time since leaving on the guides (analog) cellphone and this was great to be catching up and [...]
Start of Denali Descent
July 9, 2008 by Mitch Lewis · Leave a Comment
We awoke the next day after our successful summit journey with the goal to get back to ABC (Advanced Base Camp) at 14,400 while the weather would permit us. We would have to pack everything up again and with heavy packs and crampons, navigate our way along the 16,200-17,200′ ridge and then get back down [...]
Summit Day!
July 8, 2008 by Mitch Lewis · Leave a Comment
The wind had howled and blown at near gale force all night and we mostly thought that the summit attempt would be off. Our rope team (Paula, Laine and me) had made a pact that we would only give three days for the summit attempt (as opposed to our friends that spent 8-11 days at [...]
Death Near our High Camp
July 7, 2008 by Mitch Lewis · 1 Comment
This post is written upon my return home. As previously written, we were witness to the calls for help and the attempted rescue by our guides to the young man just some hundreds of yards from our high camp on the night before our (successful) summit bid. What follows is one of the stories including [...]
Rest and Death
July 7, 2008 by Mitch Lewis · 2 Comments
Today was a rest day at 17,200 feet. The weather started out very good and we half considered going for the summit today, but everyone was too tired. We almost regretted not going for it, but thought we would have better chance if we rested today and took our chances with the weather tomorrow. The [...]
The Big Day! Triumph getting to High Camp
July 6, 2008 by Mitch Lewis · Leave a Comment
Journal, “Amazingly tired day. It’s now 21:39 at 17,200′ Yay!!!” We got up to go about 0500 and had to get dressed, tear down tents, get harness on, pack, rope up etc, so difficult. We left around 730 and as we were walking out I was really ready to give up, the only thing that [...]
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