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Climbing Denali -West Rib Team May 2017

So I climbed denali. Its not a build (other than some sweet snow walls) but it was super fun! Between working at SpaceX and going to college I don't want to spend too much of what little time I have leftover continuing to sit in a chair on a computer. Its just not what I want to do. So bear with me for these few years while I get through school and working at big companies. I am learning a ton at SpaceX, and I think its incredibly valuable to work in industry and really build that experience. Plus its super awesome stuff! College is also important in the current employment structure, so fine... I'll do that too I guess. There is some learning at college but its just not the same as building at home or a cool company, and we don't get paid for it, so it really has some room for improvement, but I'm not in a position to change it now. The west buttress is the standard route up Denali. The rib is a lot steeper and more committing. Sustained 60-70 degree ridge climbing for 3 days while on the buttress it never gets much steeper than 40 and the NPS puts up fixed lines on a couple sections. Nearly 1000 people do the buttress a year, and only 20 or so do the rib. We planned on doing the rib, climbing the buttress route to 16000 ft then making a cache, dropping back down to 7800ft and going off up the north fork and up the west rib, but got completely shut down by bad weather for 12 days and decided to just go up the buttress. We ended up being the first guided team to make the summit in 2017. But yes, it is a lot harder, steeper requiring more food, more objective hazards, more time on the mountain, more risk of getting pinned in bad weather and more technical terrain requiring more skill and focus. We'll just have to go back some other time to do it! Anyway, I am working on a couple cool projects, and actually just started one that I actually might be able to get done in a weekend or two if I work at it, so there may actually be a build related video soon with my new real engineer skillzz! When I'm done with school I'll probably jump into a job for a couple years (probably SpaceX cause is sick but I might shake it up a little) to gain more knowledge and hopefully find a bunch of $$$ somewhere then jump back out and start doing my own stuff again, with a full shop, an engineering degree and a few years of industry experience under my belt. So if anyone wants to help me with that i'm totally up for it This video was a rendering nightmare as its super long and I'm in LA with just a laptop and occasionally an hour or three to work on editing/rendering. Then youtube bitched me out and told me it was copyrighted so I ended up uploading it in a bunch of pieces then splicing them together in the YouTube editor, so its kinda a bummer. I wasn't about to pay 300$ to fly home for a weekend to maybe get a video finished, so it took forever and has a couple ticks. If you want the high res pictures write in the comments and I'll put up a folder. The sweet climb up the crevasse:    • Climbing up a crevasse at 14,000ft on Denali   https://mountaintrip.com/ So I went guided with Mountain Trip, and the guides were awesome, we had a super fun team! Super knowledgeable! Great food! Not like those other silly guide services. We were one of the fastest teams on the mountain, planning on doing the west rib but got shut down by 12 days of bad weather at 14000ft camp, so we ended up going up the regular west buttress. It was super awesome regardless! I just had a good time, never really got tired or too cold, we had good food the whole time, did everything pretty by the book and were loving it up there. It was so much prettier than any picture or video could hope to capture. I want to go back, and I want to go to other big mountains and install long term time lapse cameras everywhere to see glaciers flowing, if anyone wants to help me out with that! Climbing mountains is dangerous. We took a guy down from the rigde who had severe frostbite on his hands, fingers, face, feet... and would have died if he was up there for a few more hours (like if the weather was bad nobody would have been going up there and nobody would have found him) I've seen an avalanche take out 6 people in the white mountains, breaking a guys femur. I've seen people tumble thousands of feet down steep icy slopes, it doesn't end well. But they are incredibly fun, so if you can make good decisions and slowly build up a skill set they are well worth a ton of hard work. Even if it is inherently pointless. Whatever keeps you happy Song: Lights and motion-Arials