{"id":7450,"date":"2012-07-14T08:41:46","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T16:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=7450"},"modified":"2012-07-14T08:42:09","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T16:42:09","slug":"elbrus-team-moving-into-the-high-hut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/14\/elbrus\/elbrus-team-moving-into-the-high-hut\/","title":{"rendered":"Elbrus Team Moving To High Hut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 13, 2012<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7451\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/View-from-the-high-hut.-Viki-Tracey.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[7450]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7451\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7451\" title=\"View from the high hut. (Viki Tracey)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/View-from-the-high-hut.-Viki-Tracey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/View-from-the-high-hut.-Viki-Tracey.jpg 800w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/View-from-the-high-hut.-Viki-Tracey-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7451\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View from the high hut. (Viki Tracey)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Just got off the phone with Mike Hamill and the Elbrus team.\u00c2\u00a0 Mike\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s working with our full group of climbers and Russian guides, Igor Tsaruk and Sasha Sak.\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a good couple of hours from the hut to the Pastokov Rocks and it makes for a great acclimatization hike the day before the summit climb.\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also another opportunity to get the spikes on and do a bit of a general \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcshake down\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 prior to a summit attempt.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a bit breezy for their hike with some afternoon snow but things seem to be settling down.\u00c2\u00a0 They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re expecting to get up early tomorrow and take a shot at this thing.\u00c2\u00a0 Everyone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s healthy and Mike\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s expecting all team members to go for it.\u00c2\u00a0 Wish them luck.\u00c2\u00a0 If it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t happen tomorrow, the itinerary does allow for a couple more attempts.\u00c2\u00a0 Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hope the mountain lets them up tomorrow so they can use those contingent days to do the valley and get in a bit more ice climbing.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 13, 2012 Just got off the phone with Mike Hamill and the Elbrus team.\u00c2\u00a0 Mike\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s working with our full group of climbers and Russian guides, Igor Tsaruk and Sasha Sak.\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a good couple of hours from the hut to the Pastokov Rocks and it makes for a great acclimatization hike the day before [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elbrus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7450","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=7450"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7454,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7450\/revisions\/7454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}