{"id":19616,"date":"2018-07-21T13:19:29","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T21:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=19616"},"modified":"2018-07-21T13:19:29","modified_gmt":"2018-07-21T21:19:29","slug":"mongolia-team-at-high-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2018\/07\/21\/mongolia\/mongolia-team-at-high-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Mongolia Team At High Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 21, 2018<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-19616 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Potaniin-Glacier_1.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[19616]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Potaniin-Glacier_1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-19618\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Potaniin-Glacier_1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Potaniin-Glacier_1-130x130.jpg 130w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Potaniin-Glacier_1-70x70.jpg 70w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Potaniin-Glacier_1-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-19618'>\n\t\t\t\tHeading up the Potaniin Glacier (Josephine McLean-Vernovage)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/High-camp-with-Mt-Khuiten_1.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[19616]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/High-camp-with-Mt-Khuiten_1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-19617\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/High-camp-with-Mt-Khuiten_1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/High-camp-with-Mt-Khuiten_1-130x130.jpg 130w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/High-camp-with-Mt-Khuiten_1-70x70.jpg 70w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/High-camp-with-Mt-Khuiten_1-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-19617'>\n\t\t\t\tHigh Camp with view of Mount Khuiten (Greg Vernovage)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte checked in overnight to let us know the team had a great day climbing to high camp.\u00c2\u00a0 The climb to high camp starts up a pretty mellow trail for about an hour.\u00c2\u00a0 From there they take a left and work their way down the rocky moraine to the Potaniin Glacier.\u00c2\u00a0 The Potaniin is not a steep glacier, but requires roping up, crampons and some route finding.\u00c2\u00a0 The team bounces back and forth over beautiful blue glacier runoff before hitting the snow slopes.\u00c2\u00a0 Once on the snow slopes, the team bends around the large rock island and finishes the climb on a bench that is well protected, and has perfect views of both Mt. Khuiten and Nairandal Peak.<\/p>\n<p>The team has settled in for the night and Charlotte has made the call to head up Nairandal Peak in the morning to continue with the slow and steady theme the group has adopted.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a great call!\u00c2\u00a0 The climb up Nairandal is a lot of fun.\u00c2\u00a0 The snow travel with a few crevasses keeps you on your toes before the last push up onto the rocks of the large summit.<\/p>\n<p>The weather is in their favor for the next three days and the team is having a great climb!<\/p>\n<p>Greg Vernovage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 21, 2018 &nbsp; Charlotte checked in overnight to let us know the team had a great day climbing to high camp.\u00c2\u00a0 The climb to high camp starts up a pretty mellow trail for about an hour.\u00c2\u00a0 From there they take a left and work their way down the rocky moraine to the Potaniin Glacier.\u00c2\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mongolia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19616","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=19616"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19620,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19616\/revisions\/19620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}