{"id":11692,"date":"2014-02-11T10:24:38","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T18:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=11692"},"modified":"2014-02-19T11:57:45","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T19:57:45","slug":"kili-team-resting-at-shira-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/11\/kilimanjaro\/kili-team-resting-at-shira-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Kili Team Resting At Shira Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February 11, 2014<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11693\" style=\"width: 501px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Shira-Kili.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[11692]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11693\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11693\" alt=\"Shira Plateau (Ken Maclaurin)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Shira-Kili.jpg\" width=\"491\" height=\"655\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Shira-Kili.jpg 750w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Shira-Kili-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Shira-Kili-620x826.jpg 620w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Shira-Kili-146x195.jpg 146w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11693\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shira Plateau (Ken Maclaurin)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>IMG Senior Guide, Jenni Fogle, just called in from Shira Camp, about 12,300 ft., on the side of Kilimanjaro.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the first camp where we get a full, unobstructed view of the mountain.\u00c2\u00a0 She said the team\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s doing great, having fun and are tucked into their tents for the night.\u00c2\u00a0 The camp\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a bit exposed so they had some wind tonight but it was dry.\u00c2\u00a0 That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a reasonable trade off, especially at night.\u00c2\u00a0 Tomorrow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s goal is Baranco Camp, at about 13,000 ft.\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the perfect acclimatization day.\u00c2\u00a0 They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll reach an altitude of about 14,000 ft. before heading down to camp.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Climb high, sleep low\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is a long-standing climber\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s adage.\u00c2\u00a0 Nice, too, because the trail is never really steep.\u00c2\u00a0 They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll log the miles, goose that red blood cell production, but not beat themselves up.<\/p>\n<p>Hope to hear from her tomorrow.\u00c2\u00a0 Bottom line \u00e2\u20ac\u201c all\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s good in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 11, 2014 IMG Senior Guide, Jenni Fogle, just called in from Shira Camp, about 12,300 ft., on the side of Kilimanjaro.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the first camp where we get a full, unobstructed view of the mountain.\u00c2\u00a0 She said the team\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s doing great, having fun and are tucked into their tents for the night.\u00c2\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11693,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kilimanjaro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11692"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11756,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11692\/revisions\/11756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}