The climber was found on Denali’s West Buttress route and was confirmed deceased. “Ranger patrol then secured the climber in place and returned to high camp,” the release said.

We huddled in the cook tent at 14,000 feet on the West Buttress of Denali as temperatures plummeted to near 0 degrees F. Do we stay and rest at 14K camp? Or push to high camp at 17K and try for ...

Denali (Formerly Mount McKinley ... In 1951, Bradford Washburn successfully summited the West Buttress route for the first time. The West Buttress, considered the most straight-forward ...