Monday, June 13, 2011

Denali Team 5: May 29 - June 18 Dispatch #11. Successful Summit Bid!

Denali Team 5:  May 25 - June 18

Guides:  Forest McBrian, Dustin Byrne and Kristen Looper

Climbers:  David Flux (UK), Mark Aitken (UK), Steve Olivera (Guam), Rishi Patel (UK), Nicola Tuer (UK), and Richard Paul Brooks (Australia)

Forest called in at 1:05am this morning (June 13) with the following dispatch:

"Hi everyone, this is Forest calling in from High Camp on Denali.  Dustin, Kristen and I are just hanging out in the tent after finishing a successful summit bid.  Everyone on the team made it to the top and down, is healthy and in very good spirits.  After we got back to camp we got some thing to drink and eat and people promptly went to bed.  We are planning to sleep in tomorrow and relax a bit before starting the journey downward.

It was a wonderful sunny day today with pretty mild temperatures and excellent snow conditions on the upper mountain.  I think everyone had a really good day of it.  Well, that's all I've got. We'll give you a ring tomorrow!"

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Congratulations Team 5! Well done!!

Jeff Bergstedt

Kitty Looper said...

Yahoo Team 5! Perhaps your new team name could be summitters! Congratulations to you all!

Kris said...

WAY TO GO, TEAM 5!! I hope Dustin used his new camera to capture some awesome photos of the great view from the top!
Krister

Chris Sutton said...

Congratulations team 5! Wonderful news... looking forward to the pictures. Well done, Mark..you did great

John Christie said...

Good stuff. Well done to all on Team 5.

pratimapatel19 said...

well done team 5 ,
rishi mum

pratimapatel19 said...

Congratulation team 5, well done rishi we are proud of you love mum,ba,mel and shyam

EO said...

Steve's mom here. Congratulations to you all, Team 5! That's absolutely fantastic news! Steve, the summit news more than makes up for missing you at graduation yesterday.

Jackie Nelson said...

Congratulations Rich - we are so happy that you made it. Love Jackie and Samx

Alex said...

Fantastic news Rish! Dead chuffed for you!

Alex

Chris Sutton said...

Mark, message from your mum and wolfie: very well done mark, very pleased for you. from chris: enjoy the walk out, take care all love chris xx