New Aconcagua Planning Booklet is live!

We just posted our new Aconcagua Expedition Planning and Preparation Book on our website. It was a lot of fun to produce and we're quite proud of it, so please check it out. Click on the booklet below for a larger version!

Open publication - Free publishing - More seven summit

Denali Updates July 1, 2010

Our Denali season has been full-value, with brutal storms interspersed with stretches of stunningly beautiful, clear days. Our last two teams to go high reached the summit and here are some podcasts from the climbers on the summit of North America.

June 7th team:



June 13th team:

Images from our 2010 Everest Expedition

Vivian James Rigney climbing up the Lhotse Face

The team negotiating the Hillary Step on summit day

Looking back across the South Summit of Mount Everest

On the top of the world!!
May 23, 2010

Descending through the Khumbu Ice Fall

The 2010 Mountain Trip Everest Team, back in Base Camp, safe and sound...

EVEREST SUMMIT!!! May 23, 2010

We are thrilled to report that our entire Everest team stood on the top of the world at 9:30 am on May 23rd!

We were on pins and needles, waiting as our team moved up with a decent, but far from perfect weather forecast. Fortunately, the gusty winds predicted failed to materialize and the team enjoyed a beautiful, warm night and a clear dawn as they climbed to the summit. They made good time, even with having to negotiate a large number of other climbers, and returned safely to Camp 4 at 26,000 feet at about 3:30 pm.

Congratulations to our five climbers, two guides and 12 Climbing Sherpas!!!!!!!!!

Here is a podcast from Scott Woolums, our expedition leader, as he checked back in from Camp 4, following their successful summit:

Denali Weather Forecast

This is an interesting widget that provides a nice, concise forecast for Denali weather. It should update daily, so check back and track what's blowing on Denali!

Weather by meteoexploration

Bill Allen featured in Salem, OR newspaper

I can only post this because Bill is over in Nepal, as he would be too self-conscious about it to let me. Bill's hometown paper, the Statesman Journal, covering all the news that's fit to print in Salem, Oregon, recently ran a front page story about Bill's Everest current expedition.

Bill and the other six climbers are currently waiting for the jetstream to shift, lowering wind speeds up high and presenting them with an opportunity to head for the summit of the highest peak in the world. They are roughly 40 days into their expedition and everything is set for their summit bid.

You can read the article from the Statesman Journal by clicking HERE.

MT Everest Team ready for summit bid!

Our 2010 Everest team has been resting in Dingboche after two rotations up high on the mountain to acclimatize. They are about to head back up to Everest Base Camp and wait for a favorable weather window in order to make their bid for the summit!

Everyone is doing well and all the requisite supplies are in place on the upper mountain, meaning our Camp Three is fully stocked and we have over 70 bottle of oxygen at High Camp! Our custom weather forecasting is the best available, so as soon as the team decides that the winds up high seem to be trending in the right direction, they'll make a push up high.

You can follow the expedition dispatch blog for our crew by clicking on the link to the right.

Good luck to all the climbers!