Mt McKinley (Denali) T/R with pictures

[Cy Kaicener]

Do you remember the guys who spent four days on a winter climb up Snow Creek and had to be rescued by helicopter. They made it to the summit of Denali in two weeks because of bad weather. They get top marks for persistance. The round trip took 17 days.
http://hillnbatt.com/denali-pics-etc

they used Snow Creek as a training trip
http://hillnbatt.com/summit-attempt-san ... snow-creek

[phydeux]

Lucky for these guys they went to Denali with a guide service, and took the normal West Buttress route. Besides the cold up high, that's a fairly straightforward glacier & snow climb, with lots of other folks around you during climbing season, and it wouldn't pose the mixed-climbing problems they encountered on Snow Creek. Scarier would be going on a guided climb of Denali with these folks; they seem to have had no experience climbing on that type of terrain.