Lisa Roderick spent 22 years managing Denali Basecamp on the Kahiltna Glacier, acting as flight control for glacier pilots, ...
In 1970, they became the first group of women to reach the top of the Alaskan mountain — but the odds were against them ...
“One of the climbers emerged from the snow cave, climbed into the basket and they were able to evacuate the surviving climber down to the Kahiltna Base Camp,” Denali spokesperson Paul Ollig sai ...
McKinley witnessed two pivotal moments in mountaineering history. This is Part 1, the story of McKinley's first winter ascent ...
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During this time, Fredson and George managed the base camp for four weeks while the rest of the team ascended Denali. Stuck proposed that an Athabascan should be the first to reach the higher ...
There was no recognition of the name Denali, or “the high one,” bestowed ... in a small airplane outfitted with skis to land at base camp, located on Kahiltna Glacier at 7,200 feet above ...
Sri Lankan mountaineer Johann Peries is just one summit away from completing the world’s most coveted mountaineering ...
The Cessna that flew the 1970 Denali Damsels team into base camp. Margaret Young Even with all of our modern technology, the mountain’s weather remains incredibly difficult to predict.
There was no recognition of the name Denali, or “the high one,” bestowed ... in a small airplane outfitted with skis to land at base camp, located on Kahiltna Glacier at 7,200 feet (2,194.6 ...
There was no recognition of the name Denali, or “the high one,” bestowed on the mountain ... ferrying climbers and tourists to the mountain in a small airplane outfitted with skis to land at base camp ...