Since climbing Mt Shashta last year on my own i was very keen on climbing Denali and figured this year would be a good time to do so. Once i got the vacation approved i had to go for it after E3 since at that time i was working with G4, it also mean’t that…
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Denali: Waiting at High Camp and the return journey.
This is part 4 in series of blogs that i have written for my denali experience. main page can be found here. July 9th It was a beautiful day and we could have made a summit attempt but it was a scheduled rest day and rightly so. Everyone including me was pretty beat up from…
Denali: Surviving the Storm and getting to High Camp 17k ft.
This is part 3 in series of blogs that i have written for my denali experience. main page can be found here. Jun 30th It was 5am and we decided to take a short nap before waking up at 9am to have pizza for dinner. The wind had really picked up and we were getting…
Denali: Getting to 11K Camp
This is part 2 in series of blogs that i have written for my denali experience. main page can be found here. As the day of departure came close i was feeling really confident and wanted to make sure that i had everything booked and taken care of. To my surprise i found that i…
Training for Denali
This is part 1 in series of blogs that i have written for my denali experience. main page can be found here. After confirming my 3 weeks of vacation I signed up with Alpine Ascents for Denali guided expedition sometime in October of 2012 so i had plenty of time to train. At that time…
Attempting to climb east face of Mt Morrison.
I have been skiing at mammoth for the past 4 years and its hard to miss Mt Morrison as you drive by. Alex wanted to climb it as well so we decided to put it on our calendars pretty early in the season but of course it was all dependent on the weather. We decided…
Price of Reaching the Summit
I wrote this article in Aug 08 and today after hearing about the incident on everest, i had to visit it again and posting it on the new blog with few edits. I read about the recent tragedy to strike the mountaineering world on K2, 11 climbers lost their lives and few suffered from injuries. …
10 Day Mountaineering Course Part 3: Mt Rainier
Day 7: Base Camp on Rainier. We had to get to AAI office by 6.30 in the morning and things got to slow start when we got there but we got moving pretty quickly since there was no gear check or anything involved. Couple of people dropped out for the Rainier part so we were…
10 Day Mountaineering Course Part 2: Mt Baker Summit
Day 4: Ice Climbing We had covered most of the basics required for glacier/snow travel and since we weren’t planning on moving to a high camp for summit attempt, it was decided that we would do some ice climbing. I was really excited by that idea since i have never ice climbed before so it…
10 Day Mountaineering Course Part 1: Snow Skills
I have been wanting to do a formal mountaineering course for a long time but never got a chance to do so, last year i was thinking about going for a 13 day course from Alpine Ascents International but then i got laid off and it was hard to schedule something properly. I wouldn’t have…