Last night Juli received a phone call from Chris and was given official confirmation of their summit.
Chris, Ed, and Clark reached the summit Wednesday around 7:45 pm. He said the weather was great and the skies were clear so they had fantastic views!! They were totally exhausted by the time they made it back to high camp.
Yesterday the three descended down to 14,200 and met up with Brian and Kirk.
They were hoping today to make it all the way down to base camp at Kahiltna glacier and wait for their flight off.
He told her that everyone was doing well and they so appreciate all of the prayers and love that have been poured out for them all.
The weather down to 8000 looks good for today, no snow, some clouds and mid 20's for a high! I'm sure that is a welcome feeling to all of our guys after enduring so much wind and snow for so many weeks.
I can only imagine that hot showers and a nourishing meal is on their minds at this point.
I may just have to burn Brians clothes when he gets home if they don't go up in flames on their own.
3 weeks and no shower? yikes.
And I "forgot" to post a map yesterday,, so here's where they are today... and I updated Wednesdays Blog post to show their summit map!! Sorry about that!
What bittersweet moments it must be for the men as they retrace the very route which tested their mettle. We couldn't be prouder to say that we know Brian & Kirk. Nor, could we be less impressed with the other men. Bravo, boys! Bravo!!! Our God reigns.
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