{"id":12087,"date":"2014-06-29T07:09:12","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T15:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=12087"},"modified":"2014-06-29T07:09:12","modified_gmt":"2014-06-29T15:09:12","slug":"kili-climbers-ready-for-the-summit-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2014\/06\/29\/kilimanjaro\/kili-climbers-ready-for-the-summit-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Kili climbers ready for the summit bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 29, 2014<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12088\" style=\"width: 1610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_7449.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[12087]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12088\" class=\"wp-image-12088 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_7449.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7449\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_7449.jpg 1600w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_7449-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_7449-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_7449-940x705.jpg 940w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_7449-620x465.jpg 620w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_7449-195x146.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12088\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kili climbers at Barafu Camp (Craig John)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After five days of gradual acclimatization, our Kili team are ready to climb!\u00c2\u00a0 Craig John reports a nice hike today up to the high camp at Barafu (15,000 feet) and a lazy afternoon of eating, hydrating, and resting.\u00c2\u00a0 The team will be up at 11pm and walking by midnight, and hopefully will hit Uhuru Peak shortly after dawn.\u00c2\u00a0 The first few hours of climbing in the dark normally go pretty smoothly, and are not too cold.\u00c2\u00a0 Then, about 4 am, as you are getting up by 18,000 feet, it will start getting very chilly and you will be glad you brought the extra warm clothes. Time for the down parka!\u00c2\u00a0 The air temp is often in the single digits F and if there is even a light breeze, it is sub zero.\u00c2\u00a0 Given that you are breathing less than half the oxygen as sea level, it makes it feel even colder\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6even if you are nearly on the equator!<\/p>\n<p>Eric Simonson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 29, 2014 After five days of gradual acclimatization, our Kili team are ready to climb!\u00c2\u00a0 Craig John reports a nice hike today up to the high camp at Barafu (15,000 feet) and a lazy afternoon of eating, hydrating, and resting.\u00c2\u00a0 The team will be up at 11pm and walking by midnight, and hopefully will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kilimanjaro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12087","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=12087"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12090,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12087\/revisions\/12090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}