{"id":12074,"date":"2014-06-26T13:30:10","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T21:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=12074"},"modified":"2014-06-26T13:30:10","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T21:30:10","slug":"kili-climbers-reach-shira-plateau-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2014\/06\/26\/kilimanjaro\/kili-climbers-reach-shira-plateau-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Kili Climbers Reach Shira Plateau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 26, 2014<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12075\" style=\"width: 2170px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/DCP_3021.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[12074]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12075\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/DCP_3021.jpg\" alt=\"Shira Camp at sunset with the view west across the plateau towards the Cathedral Peaks (Eric Simonson)\" width=\"2160\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/DCP_3021.jpg 2160w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/DCP_3021-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/DCP_3021-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/DCP_3021-940x626.jpg 940w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/DCP_3021-620x413.jpg 620w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/DCP_3021-195x130.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2160px) 100vw, 2160px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12075\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shira Camp with the view west across the plateau towards the Cathedral Peaks (Eric Simonson)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>IMG guide Craig John reports that the team had a good hike today up to the 12,500 foot Shira plateau.\u00c2\u00a0 They left the trees shortly above Machame Camp and worked their way up a rocky spur ridge, before finally emerging on the giant lava plateau that defines the west side of the mountain. \u00c2\u00a0Again, it was cloudy and comfortable hiking conditions during the day, and now clearing up in the evening, with some great views of the mountain. Tomorrow, the team heads for Barranco Camp at 13,000 feet and Craig thinks they will then be above a persistent low altitude deck of clouds which has lingered in the area for the last several days.\u00c2\u00a0 So far so good!<\/p>\n<p>Eric Simonson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 26, 2014 IMG guide Craig John reports that the team had a good hike today up to the 12,500 foot Shira plateau.\u00c2\u00a0 They left the trees shortly above Machame Camp and worked their way up a rocky spur ridge, before finally emerging on the giant lava plateau that defines the west side of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12074","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\/12074","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=12074"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12077,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12074\/revisions\/12077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}