The team had a long and challenging day descending from 11,000 feet to base camp at 7,000 feet. It was a 10 hour travel day including a lot of navigation through the crevasse fields. They had whiteout conditions as they were traveling, greatly increasing the difficulty. This is where most incidents occur on Denali so they were quite relieved to make it through safely. Weather was not conducive to fly out from base camp so they are hoping that will turn and they will be able to fly out soon. They have plenty of reserve food as they had planned for a 21 day expedition and completed their mission in 16 days.
We hope weather cooperates and that we'll be able to welcome them home soon!
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