Climbing Denali, Day 13
Sat phone message from Mark on Sunday at 9pm Alaska time (-9 GMT).
Hi, It's Mark. We made it to High Camp so we're at 17,200 feet (5,423 metres) and you can certainly notice it! We've got half the amount of Oxygen you would get at sea level. To get here from 14,000 camp took the best part of nine and a half hours. It was pretty good weather there was some light winds but nothing really to shout about. Because it had snowed for much of yesterday and last night there wasn't a trail for us to see from the tracks of previous climbers, up the Head Wall which was a little bit trickier than the first time we did it because with crampons on hard pack it's easy but in fresh snow you are skidding all over the place. The team all made it up there fine and we picked up our cache which we'd left from our last climb...
The signal dropped off at the end and some of the message was lost. Such is the way with technology in these extremes.
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