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Peaks Lighting Up Thursday, June 1, 2000
And we have good news on June 1st we're all sitting here relaxing today 'cause we summitted yesterday. Four out of five of our team members made it to the top and one person made it very close — made it to the ridge near 20,000 feet. A long day. The team has been incredible [Unintelligible] for me as a guide it has been a real pleasure. It's also been a pleasure working with John Race. The climb itself from 17, we were pretty lucky with the weather. There have been low-lying clouds — it's probably gray in Anchorage — but up here it has been very sunny; Foraker is sticking out. We left camp about 10:30, summitted about eight and then ended up in camp again in the early, wee hours of the morning, as the peaks were lighting up with the sunrise and the descent was slowed by some exhaustion. Even though the weather's been pretty good on the summit it was quite windy, slight gusts at 25-30 and possibly 10 below. So we didn't linger long, just enjoyed a few peaks of Huntington and some of the surrounding Alaskan Range [Unintelligible]. Right now the team's [Unintelligible] in the tents, it's pretty warm actually, and resting, catching up, hibernating [Unintelligible] you can tell by the schedule...[Unintelligible]...where I live in Colorado. But you look at the mountain and we are able to make our camp [Unintelligible] problems, rest days [Unintelligible] and rest day at 17 tomorrow...[transmission fails]. Hi this is Bill McCormick from 17,000 feet on Denali, again. And just a couple additional bits of information: there's hundreds of, literally hundreds, of climbers on the mountain right now. You can get 40,000 [Unintelligible] Eastern European...[transmission fails].
— Bill McCormick, Alpine Ascents International, MountainZone.com Correspondent
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