Guide Tips - Summit Denali

What If…?

As guides, we are tasked with helping you have an enjoyable time on your expedition and hopefully help you achieve your goal of standing on top of your mountain. Some of the the tools we bring to the table are our skills, honed through years of experience and training, our understanding of the region based on many previous expeditions, and our institutional knowledge that is shared among our team. Guiding big mountains is partly based in science (physics, math, meteorology, geology…) and partly art. Our goal is to help facilitate the best possible outcome for whatever situation presents itself.

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So You’re Planning on Climbing Denali?

Preparation

An expedition begins long before you tighten your boots and begin hiking up the trail. Whether you’ve grasped it or not, you are already in the thick of your Denali expedition and you have already made numerous decisions that will ultimately affect your experience in the Alaska Range.

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The Talkeetna Hang

Travel

It doesn’t matter our intentions, mother nature is the boss, and if she says, “you ain’t going to do that,” you aren’t going to do that. This can plague us our entire trip if unlucky, but nothing is more frustrating than hitting Talkeetna raring to go, and then… nothing. Base Camp is socked in and the planes aren’t flying.

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Climber & Team Communication

Preparation, Tips & Techniques

An expedition is a team effort and teams are strongest when there is clear, candid communication among all team members. Be honest with one another, even about little things. Often, minor situations become crises that otherwise could have been mediated early on, if only someone else knew about them.

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