Denali West Buttress Expedition Team 3 (May 20 - June 9, 2018) Dispatch From June 4th

Guides:

Paul Ivaska
Ian Mceleney
Katlynne Schaumberg

Climbers:

Xiao Han
William Martin
Chase Bradshaw
Joshua Martin
Michael Knittel
Cory Brooks
Kenneth Morand
James Stewart
Ralph Eberts

From AAI Guide Katlynne Schaumburg:

Hi this Katlynne from AAI Denali Team 3. It is June 4th, day 16 of our expedition. Today we left Camp at around 11 am, made it across the Auto-Bahn, and to Denali Pass (18,200ft). Due to the number of parties on the route and the extremely cold and questionable weather over us, the team elected to turn back to Camp with all of our fingers and toes. The game plan for tomorrow is the same. We will wake up, have breakfast and try again for the summit.