Final Post from Dave Ahrens, back in Anchorage...

Back to the green grass and rich smells of spring in Alaska! The tents are drying out and the extra cheese is back in the freezer. I hope everyone is getting back into the swing of "normal" day to day life. I just want to thank everyone for a great trip and let everyone know I appreciate there effort and humor from day one to twenty.

  I'm glad everyone made there flights and I'm sorry I missed Simon and Toni. Best of luck to everyone and as I told Dave, Neil and Toni, please use me as a resource and if I can help with anything in the future from buying a rope to getting back to Alaska please let me know. I have every ones email and will be in touch, I have some of Simon's personal items, photos from the fixed lines and of course I want to know how Dave's hand is healing up. Best of luck and keep on climbing!

Base Camp!

The whole team is now in basecamp.   The weather isn't cooperating for them right now, and the planes can't fly in to pick them up, but that could change any minute.  They still hope to fly out some time today, but the hard work is done, and they are enjoying the relative warmth, and the thick Oxygen filled air of the lower elevations.