{"id":12354,"date":"2014-08-10T11:45:41","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T19:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=12354"},"modified":"2014-08-10T11:45:41","modified_gmt":"2014-08-10T19:45:41","slug":"elbrus-team-sits-tight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2014\/08\/10\/img-news\/elbrus-team-sits-tight\/","title":{"rendered":"Elbrus Team Sits Tight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August 10, 2014<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12355\" style=\"width: 1715px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Elbrus-scenic.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[12354]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12355\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Elbrus-scenic.jpg\" alt=\"Elbrus.  West (highest) summit on the left hand side.\" width=\"1705\" height=\"1169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Elbrus-scenic.jpg 1705w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Elbrus-scenic-300x205.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Elbrus-scenic-1024x702.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Elbrus-scenic-940x644.jpg 940w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Elbrus-scenic-620x425.jpg 620w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Elbrus-scenic-195x133.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1705px) 100vw, 1705px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12355\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elbrus. West (highest) summit on the left hand side.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Good news is that the winds are low.\u00c2\u00a0 Bad news is that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been snowing with poor visibility.\u00c2\u00a0 Faced with those conditions on the team\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first possible summit attempt, the guides decided to sit tight.\u00c2\u00a0 They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got 3 days to attempt to summit.\u00c2\u00a0 The trick, the art, is to hopefully find that window where they can get up with acceptable margins of risk.\u00c2\u00a0 Forecast is for the winds to remain low but snow showers to continue.\u00c2\u00a0 Keeping our fingers crossed for that little seam when the mountain potentially says yes.\u00c2\u00a0 Members up high are feeling good and anxious to go, but smart enough to know that patience is often a virtue.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 10, 2014 Good news is that the winds are low.\u00c2\u00a0 Bad news is that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been snowing with poor visibility.\u00c2\u00a0 Faced with those conditions on the team\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first possible summit attempt, the guides decided to sit tight.\u00c2\u00a0 They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got 3 days to attempt to summit.\u00c2\u00a0 The trick, the art, is to hopefully find that [&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-12354","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\/12354","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=12354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12356,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12354\/revisions\/12356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}