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Denali 2008 27-Jul-2008 At 9:03:36 PM psd

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Hi all,

Four friends and I had a crack at Denali in May via the West Rib route. We climbed the West Buttress route to 14,200 and cached at 16,300 on the West Rib via the west Rib cut-off. At that point two of the guys decided to climb the upper part of the Buttress route rather than attempt the Rib - they summitted a few days later.

The remaining three of us descended to 7,900, managed to find our way through the icefalls of the North East Fork, and climbed the crux Chicken couloir to access the Rib setting up camp at the Apex Camp at 12,900. We then got hit by 3 days of wind storms with up to 90mph winds. We had bent tent poles and a few nasty moments in the VE25. We then had a forecast of one clear day followed by three more days of storms. As we were out of food and our cache at 16,300 was two days climb above us we were forced to descend.

As I've enjoyed wasting time at work looking at other people's shots from time to time I'd thought I'd put a few up of my own. Link below:

Denali Photos

Cheers,
Peter