Lonnie Dupre has tried three times to be the first person to solo Denali in winter, and once again he’s not going to nab the summit. Even climate change can’t change a brutal fact: It’s dark up near the Arctic Circle in winter, and that plays with your brain. And it’s still bone-chilling cold. Dupre [ more... ]

Each year about 1,500 climbers attempt to summit Denali. Let’s just say they eat a lot of protein and carbs on the way up. Then sometimes they have to use the restroom. Over the decades that amounts to about 130,000 pounds of human waste, which is all getting tossed into the mountain’s glacial crevasses. So [ more... ]

Well, almost now. Beginning tomorrow you can go online to reserve your seat on the bus that ferries you into the center of Denali. It’s almost too easy to imagine myself buying a flight to Denali, renting a car, and then finding out that I was supposed to get my bus seat six months earlier. [ more... ]

The Denali Experiment from The North Face (unrelated to the Denali jacket prized on college campuses around the U.S.) is a Camp 4 Collective production featuring Sage Cattabriga-Alosa and big mountain snowboarder Lucas Debari. It’s directed by Jimmy Chin and edited by Backcountry.com Athlete Renan Ozturk. The group assembled a dream team of climbers and mountaineers, including Conrad Anker, Ingrid Backstrom and several other North Face Athletes. The result is this fantastic 15-minute video.

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A 34-year-old marathoner became the first man to complete a run of the entire 92-mile road through Denali National Park. It took him 25 hours while a friend pedaled alongside on a bicycle. Besides a sore hip the biggest danger on the way was nearly running head on into a caribou that crossed his path. [ more... ]

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Well, specifically its fossilized tracks were discovered, but we’re not splitting hairs here. An archaeology team working between 2006-10 discovered abundant bird tracks from some massive creature, and after a bit of research they discovered that this particular bird was uncategorized. This new discovery seems to prove that Denali was rich in birdlife 70 million [ more... ]

Lonnie Dupre of Minnesota is attempting to become the first person to complete a solo climb of Denali in the month of January, when conditions are at their worst. Winds can hit over 100mph, and of the 9 expeditions that have gone up the mountain in winter, only 16 people have made it to the [ more... ]

Park officials are considering an increase in climbing fees on Mount McKinley. Currently it costs $200 for each climbing permit, and the fees in Denali were last raised from $150 in 2005. The interesting thing is that for each Denali climber, the park spends about $1,200. Those costs cover staff, mountaineering programs, and…rescues. I guess [ more... ]

The National Park Service is operating at a government pace in deciding whether or not to allocate a higher percentage of climbing permits to guide services in Denali National Park. Currently 25% of the 1,500 annual climbing permits are given to guides for their clients, with the balance going to any wackjob with a dream [ more... ]