{"id":12133,"date":"2014-07-13T12:06:31","date_gmt":"2014-07-13T20:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=12133"},"modified":"2014-07-13T12:06:31","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T20:06:31","slug":"elbrus-team-ready-to-move-higher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/13\/img-news\/elbrus-team-ready-to-move-higher\/","title":{"rendered":"Elbrus Team Ready to Move Higher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 13, 2014<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12134\" style=\"width: 1304px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/image003.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[12133]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12134\" class=\"wp-image-12134 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/image003.jpg\" alt=\"image003\" width=\"1294\" height=\"970\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/image003.jpg 1294w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/image003-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/image003-1024x767.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/image003-940x704.jpg 940w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/image003-620x464.jpg 620w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/image003-195x146.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1294px) 100vw, 1294px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12134\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caucasus and the Observatory (Photo: Viki Tracey)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444444;\">Mike Hamill, Brian and his sons are ready to head up now to the high hut.\u00c2\u00a0 A day of acclimatization hiking in the valley, a training day on the slopes of Elbrus itself and they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re ready to move higher.\u00c2\u00a0 A couple of nights will be needed at the high hut before they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re ready to take a shot at the summit.\u00c2\u00a0 These guys are fit but, regardless, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no way to short cut that acclimatization process.\u00c2\u00a0 Mike\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s told me the weather is sort of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153in and out\u00e2\u20ac\u009d right now so they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll just have to pick a time when it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153in\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and see if they can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get up.\u00c2\u00a0 Their Russian guide, Sasha, is handling all the logistics with customary ease.\u00c2\u00a0 So far, so good.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 13, 2014 Mike Hamill, Brian and his sons are ready to head up now to the high hut.\u00c2\u00a0 A day of acclimatization hiking in the valley, a training day on the slopes of Elbrus itself and they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re ready to move higher.\u00c2\u00a0 A couple of nights will be needed at the high hut before they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elbrus","category-img-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12133","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=12133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12135,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12133\/revisions\/12135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}