Talkeetna Air - NO FLY
Boarded TAT air taxi, but last minute called off - bad weather at the Base, can't fly.
Car camped outside TAT dormitory - great - can take shower and boil water. Climbers from all over the world. Two young guys from Peru plan to climb Denali in one day from the Base. Went to buy Deli food in nearby store. Nobody so far summitted: saw some frustrated Polish and some skiers. "How high did you guys climb?" "Not high".
Summit temperature: -30°C, so we are not in great hurry to get there, in fact hope weather still bad for a few days.
In the afternoon, met a solo climber from Japan. Vera asked him: "Wow! You climb alone! But what if you drop into a crevasse? There will be nobody to save you". The answer was: "Then I will die". Certainly, percent of insane people is high over here.We never saw him again.
Car camped outside TAT dormitory - great - can take shower and boil water. Climbers from all over the world. Two young guys from Peru plan to climb Denali in one day from the Base. Went to buy Deli food in nearby store. Nobody so far summitted: saw some frustrated Polish and some skiers. "How high did you guys climb?" "Not high".
Summit temperature: -30°C, so we are not in great hurry to get there, in fact hope weather still bad for a few days.
In the afternoon, met a solo climber from Japan. Vera asked him: "Wow! You climb alone! But what if you drop into a crevasse? There will be nobody to save you". The answer was: "Then I will die". Certainly, percent of insane people is high over here.We never saw him again.
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