{"id":10723,"date":"2013-09-24T09:27:51","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T17:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=10723"},"modified":"2013-09-24T09:27:51","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T17:27:51","slug":"kili-climbers-reach-shira-camp-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/24\/kilimanjaro\/kili-climbers-reach-shira-camp-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Kili Climbers Reach Shira Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 24, 2013<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-10723 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/View-of-Kili-on-the-way-to-Shira-Plateau.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[10723]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/View-of-Kili-on-the-way-to-Shira-Plateau-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-10724\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/View-of-Kili-on-the-way-to-Shira-Plateau-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/View-of-Kili-on-the-way-to-Shira-Plateau-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/View-of-Kili-on-the-way-to-Shira-Plateau-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/View-of-Kili-on-the-way-to-Shira-Plateau-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-1-10724'>\n\t\t\t\tView of Kili on the way to Shira Plateau (Eben Reckord)\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='https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/DCP_0840.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[10723]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/DCP_0840-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-10725\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/DCP_0840-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/DCP_0840-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/DCP_0840-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/DCP_0840-45x45.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-1-10725'>\n\t\t\t\tShira Plateau Camp with view of Mt. Meru to the west  (Eric Simonson)\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='https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/photo-113.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[10723]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/photo-113-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-10726\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/photo-113-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/photo-113-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/photo-113-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/photo-113-45x45.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-1-10726'>\n\t\t\t\tHiking up through the forest (Chris Meder)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The Shira Plateau extends west from &#8220;Kibo&#8221; (the actual volcano) and is our team&#8217;s goal for their second day on the trail.\u00c2\u00a0 Along the way the trees get smaller, then turn to the rocky shrubbry of the Plateau.\u00c2\u00a0 Today the weather was good and Chris reports that the team did well.\u00c2\u00a0 Now they are over 12,000 feet, with expansive views to the south and west (including Mt. Meru which is near Arusha).\u00c2\u00a0 Tomorrow they head for Barranco camp at 13,000 feet.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Simonson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 24, 2013 The Shira Plateau extends west from &#8220;Kibo&#8221; (the actual volcano) and is our team&#8217;s goal for their second day on the trail.\u00c2\u00a0 Along the way the trees get smaller, then turn to the rocky shrubbry of the Plateau.\u00c2\u00a0 Today the weather was good and Chris reports that the team did well.\u00c2\u00a0 Now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10726,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kilimanjaro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10728,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10723\/revisions\/10728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}