{"id":10752,"date":"2013-09-25T16:28:04","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T00:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=10752"},"modified":"2013-09-25T16:28:04","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T00:28:04","slug":"carstensz-team-reaches-camp-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/25\/carstensz-pyramid\/carstensz-team-reaches-camp-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Carstensz Team Reaches Camp 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 25, 2013<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10754\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_8887-2.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[10752]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10754\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10754\" alt=\"Climbers crossing the Plateau  (Jason Edwards)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_8887-2.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_8887-2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_8887-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_8887-2-940x705.jpg 940w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_8887-2-620x465.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_8887-2-195x146.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10754\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Climbers crossing the Plateau (Jason Edwards)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>IMG leader Dan Zokaites reports that the team reached Camp 4 up on the Plateau and are continuing towards Base Camp. \u00c2\u00a0It continues to be very challenging hiking for the team. \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Now they have reached 12,000 feet in this limestone karst terrain, with lots of water, sinkholes, waterfalls, and swampy areas.\u00c2\u00a0 Thoughts turn to the famous Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer and his team who pioneered this overland route and made the first ascent of Carstensz back in 1962,\u00c2\u00a0 If you want to read a real adventure story, track down his classic book \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">I Come from the Stone Age<\/span>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Simonson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 25, 2013 IMG leader Dan Zokaites reports that the team reached Camp 4 up on the Plateau and are continuing towards Base Camp. \u00c2\u00a0It continues to be very challenging hiking for the team. \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Now they have reached 12,000 feet in this limestone karst terrain, with lots of water, sinkholes, waterfalls, and swampy areas.\u00c2\u00a0 Thoughts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carstensz-pyramid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10752","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=10752"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10756,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10752\/revisions\/10756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}