Another 12 hour sleep after being pretty tired. We load carried today to 13,500ft to cache. Heavy pack but great to ditch the sled for the day! Conditions were perfect and route good, smiles all round! Toe in good shape although dead flesh and nail starting to fall off and painful but all good. I am introducing Matt to the top 5 game!
After completing the penultimate leg of his world first challenge summiting Denali in Alaska,
Hi All In Talkteena after returning from base camp last night. Talkteena is about 3-4 hours away from Anchorage and we are getting shuttles to Anchorage tonight before flying out from Anchorage tomorrow. We flew off the glacier yesterday in a…
Sorry it’s been a few days since calling in. Matt and I have been collapsing in to our tents every night at the end of the days since summiting, we’ve been shattered and other than down climbing just been sleeping loads. Summit day was a tough 15…
Rich Summits Denali! Richard Parks summited North America’s highest mountain – Denali, also known as Mount McKinley today at 8.08am UK time and 11.08pm, Wednesday 29th June 2011 Alaskan/local time. He has now completed an amazing 8 legs of his…
Richard Parks summited North America’s highest mountain – Denali, also known as Mount McKinley today at 8.08am UK time and 11.08pm, Wednesday 29th June 2011 Alaskan/local time.
Update for yesterday. Forecast still bad but we climbed to 16,200ft to top of the headwall to cache a load to be ready to move to 17,000ft camp and summit when we get a break in the weather. We climbed today in moderate conditions, low visibility and…
Last week Richard fell down a crevasse resulting in a dramatic rescue from a 7-metre cavern followed by a gruelling 6 hour climb to reach the first camp at 7,500ft.
Update for yesterday (I am 9 hours behind): Noodle curry tonight! More digging our tent out today. It was an enforced rest day as conditions are still bad. We woke with 2 and a half metres of snow and 50mph wind gusts. At 17,000 ft camp its 70mph…
Update for yesterday as you’ll be reading this on the 26th. We woke to a snowstorm. Tent buried in 2ft tent of snow and gusts up to 46mph. Forecasts suggest that the low-pressure system will stay for 4/5days! Looks like we are going to have to…
We climbed to 14,000ft camp picking up cached gear en route. A tough day carrying full loads, over 1000m. Up to 4300m. Although tired after today, we are feeling strong and making great progress having reached 14,000ft camp in 4 days. Tomorrow (today…
Left at 1.50am to climb 7 hours with full loads, no cache. Arrived at 11,000ft camp at 8.50am. It’s at 10,990ft – they work in feet over here rather than metres. Conditions much better today, much colder making the route more stable. Although we…
On Monday Richard fell down on a crevasse on Denali. He is okay and we will have more news and an exclusive interview with him as soon as we can speak to him at length on the satellite phone. Richard and Matt were travelling on a well trodden route…
It took me and Matt about 4 hours to travel from Anchorage to Talkeetna yesterday morning. After checking in with the park rangers and having our briefing we had to pack and sort our food and gear out. It took us all day to repack the food originally…
Matt and I travelled for 24hrs yesterday and still ended up in the same day, it was like a sci-fi movie! It's 24-hour sunlight here too, which further confused our bodies as I was thinking it's morning but it was like 11 at night! Transferring flights in…
Former Wales rugby international turned mountaineer Richard Parks has vowed he will not give up on his world first 737 Challenge and
Had a great time at Kev’s wedding on Saturday, was nice to see everyone. Sunday I slept most of the day and yesterday I had 2 hyperbaric chamber sessions. Also had lots of filming to do with our filming partner for the BBC Documentary. As my toe gets…
Hi Guys. I’ve have been in the hyperbaric chamber at the South Wales MS Therapy Centre twice a day apart from yesterday. Lazarus the toe still looks pretty gross but it’s improving every day with the help of the hyperbaric chamber and regular…
I headed up to Sheffield today with Russ and Dai from SMS Media, our filming partner to meet with Simon Lowe and all the team at Jagged Globe, our logistical partner. It was so cool seeing Simon again and all the Jagged Globe team. I hadn't seen some of…
I should have flown to the Alaska today! Although frustrating, I've cleared my head of feeling sorry for myself and all the mental clutter from the last week. I'm looking forward now and focusing on what I can control. I had my second session in the…
Since I returned home on Tuesday my feet haven't touched the floor! I'm so grateful to the various specialists and consultants who have been amazing in seeing me at such short notice this week and are helping me have the best chance of getting onto…
