{"id":19818,"date":"2018-08-03T18:41:11","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T02:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=19818"},"modified":"2018-08-03T18:41:11","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T02:41:11","slug":"imgs-second-elbrus-team-is-on-the-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2018\/08\/03\/elbrus\/imgs-second-elbrus-team-is-on-the-move\/","title":{"rendered":"IMG&#8217;s Second Elbrus team is on the Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August 3, 2018<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19819\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1682.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[19818]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19819\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19819\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1682-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Acclimatization Hike  (Sasha Sak)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1682-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1682-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1682-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1682-940x705.jpg 940w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1682-620x465.jpg 620w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1682-195x146.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19819\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Acclimatization Hike (Sasha Sak)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our second team for the season is in the Baksan Valley, Russia now, preparing for their Mt. Elbrus climb.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a custom climb comprised of a mother\/son team and a father\/son team.\u00c2\u00a0 After training with IMG in the Northeast this winter, they set sights on Elbrus this month.\u00c2\u00a0 And\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6so far, so good.\u00c2\u00a0 The team went in through Moscow and will be heading out at trip\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s end through St. Petersburg.\u00c2\u00a0 Leading their climb is one of our Russian guides, Alexandra &#8216;Sasha&#8217; Sak.\u00c2\u00a0 Besides being a strong, competent mountaineer and guide, Sasha trained as an interpreter so her English skills are excellent. She lives in the Baksan Valley during the season and knows everyone in town.<\/p>\n<p>After some sightseeing in Moscow, the group met Sasha in Mineralnye Vody for the ride up to the village of Terskol.\u00c2\u00a0 Now the acclimatization process begins.\u00c2\u00a0 A little for their hike to the Observatory but that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s OK, just means they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll have good weather for the summit attempt.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 3, 2018 &nbsp; Our second team for the season is in the Baksan Valley, Russia now, preparing for their Mt. Elbrus climb.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a custom climb comprised of a mother\/son team and a father\/son team.\u00c2\u00a0 After training with IMG in the Northeast this winter, they set sights on Elbrus this month.\u00c2\u00a0 And\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6so far, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19819,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19818","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\/19818","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=19818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19821,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19818\/revisions\/19821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}