A mountaineering first: Climbing Mt. Huntington’s south ridge

In mid-April two climbers made mountaineering history by being the first to ascend the south ridge of Mount Huntington, which is located roughly eight miles south-southeast of Denali. It took them seven days, though they had only prepared for five.
Clint Helander, one of the two climbers, said the ridge isn’t as tall as Denali, but there’s no easy way up the summit. Helander mentioned Mount Huntington is a little over two miles long as the crow flies, but there’s 8500 feet of e