{"id":12158,"date":"2014-07-16T16:53:17","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T00:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=12158"},"modified":"2014-07-16T16:53:17","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T00:53:17","slug":"first-elbrus-summits-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/16\/elbrus\/first-elbrus-summits-of-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"First Elbrus Summits Of The Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 16, 2014<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12159\" style=\"width: 1304px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/The-last-little-bit.-Viki-Tracey.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[12158]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12159\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12159\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/The-last-little-bit.-Viki-Tracey.jpg\" alt=\"The last little bit. (Viki Tracey)\" width=\"1294\" height=\"970\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/The-last-little-bit.-Viki-Tracey.jpg 1294w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/The-last-little-bit.-Viki-Tracey-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/The-last-little-bit.-Viki-Tracey-1024x767.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/The-last-little-bit.-Viki-Tracey-940x704.jpg 940w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/The-last-little-bit.-Viki-Tracey-620x464.jpg 620w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/The-last-little-bit.-Viki-Tracey-195x146.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1294px) 100vw, 1294px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12159\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The last little bit. (Viki Tracey)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Perfect weather for a perfect summit climb.\u00c2\u00a0 Mike reported that it could not have been a better day and that the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dccrew\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 could not have done a better job.\u00c2\u00a0 Everything was so good, in fact, that the team made a beeline from the summit to the high hut, packed up for a quick trip down to the chair lift and trams and were back at their hotel in Terskol, taking a shower and having a big dinner that same evening.\u00c2\u00a0 Not often we can pull a summit day off that ends back at the hotel but sometimes the stars line up.\u00c2\u00a0 Congrats to Brian, Mark and Jack.\u00c2\u00a0 Heck of a job, guys.\u00c2\u00a0 Something tells me that this will be the first of many \u00e2\u20ac\u201c maybe even another SIX.\u00c2\u00a0 And, of course, congratulations to Mike and Sasha for pulling off one seriously sweet (and quick) climb of Elbrus.<\/p>\n<p>Mike will be heading shortly to St. Petersburg where he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll meet our second team for the season.\u00c2\u00a0 Igor and Sasha will join Mike and our full team of 10 climbers for another Elbrus adventure.\u00c2\u00a0 As they say, stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 16, 2014 Perfect weather for a perfect summit climb.\u00c2\u00a0 Mike reported that it could not have been a better day and that the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dccrew\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 could not have done a better job.\u00c2\u00a0 Everything was so good, in fact, that the team made a beeline from the summit to the high hut, packed up for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12159,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elbrus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12158","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=12158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12160,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12158\/revisions\/12160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}