Banco De Chile Expedition Flies to the Glacier

The Banco De Chile 2005 Mt. McKinley Expedition flew to Basecamp on the Southeast Fork of the Kahiltna Glacier this afternoon. The team plans to move to Camp 1 at 7,800 feet tonight.

The team landed in Anchorage Friday night to learn that 14 of their bags missed a connection. Fortunately, the missing bags arrived the following morning and the expedition was able to proceed as scheduled. Saturday was spent finalizing equipment for the trip and we had a nice dinner at the Glacier Brewhouse in the evening.

Sunday morning we departed Anchorage and drove to Talkeetna where the usual registering for the climb went smoothly and Talkeetna Air Taxi flew the team to the glacier at about 4:30 P.M.