{"id":5235,"date":"2011-11-09T12:13:05","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T20:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=5235"},"modified":"2011-11-09T12:22:31","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T20:22:31","slug":"mexico-team-summits-ixta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/09\/mexican-volcanoes\/mexico-team-summits-ixta\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico Team Summits Ixta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November 9, 2011<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5236\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Iztaccihuatl_1941.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[5235]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5236\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5236 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Iztaccihuatl_1941.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Iztaccihuatl_1941.jpg 714w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Iztaccihuatl_1941-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5236\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Postcard circa 1941 of Iztaccihuatl.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I always like starting a day with a call from one of our groups saying they just reached the summit of another peak somewhere in the world.\u00c2\u00a0 My partner, George Dunn, call in at 8 am Pacific time to let me know that his entire team, minus one climber, stood on the summit this morning.\u00c2\u00a0 A little cloudy and unsettled but good enough to climb safely.\u00c2\u00a0 George personally stayed behind to escort one of our members down when he began to exhibit signs of altitude problems.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the very reason you want a knowledgeable, experienced guide at the helm of a trip.\u00c2\u00a0 Catch a potential problem early and keep it from becoming a serious problem.<\/p>\n<p>Our congratulations to all.\u00c2\u00a0 They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re heading down now and will try to get to the city of Puebla tonight for showers and a bed in the hotel.\u00c2\u00a0 Dinner will be a late one but not that hard to handle on a warm evening in Mexico after a good summit.<\/p>\n<p>Orizaba is next.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 9, 2011 I always like starting a day with a call from one of our groups saying they just reached the summit of another peak somewhere in the world.\u00c2\u00a0 My partner, George Dunn, call in at 8 am Pacific time to let me know that his entire team, minus one climber, stood on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mexican-volcanoes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5235","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=5235"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5239,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5235\/revisions\/5239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}