{"id":10760,"date":"2013-09-26T12:33:26","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T20:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=10760"},"modified":"2013-09-26T12:33:26","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T20:33:26","slug":"kili-climbers-reach-karanga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/26\/kilimanjaro\/kili-climbers-reach-karanga\/","title":{"rendered":"Kili Climbers Reach Karanga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 26, 2013<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10761\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Karanga-Camp-at-13000-feet-on-Kilimanjaro-Eric-Simonson.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[10760]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10761\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10761\" alt=\"Karanga Camp at 13,000 feet on Kilimanjaro (Eric Simonson)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Karanga-Camp-at-13000-feet-on-Kilimanjaro-Eric-Simonson-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Karanga-Camp-at-13000-feet-on-Kilimanjaro-Eric-Simonson-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Karanga-Camp-at-13000-feet-on-Kilimanjaro-Eric-Simonson-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Karanga-Camp-at-13000-feet-on-Kilimanjaro-Eric-Simonson-940x626.jpg 940w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Karanga-Camp-at-13000-feet-on-Kilimanjaro-Eric-Simonson-620x413.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Karanga-Camp-at-13000-feet-on-Kilimanjaro-Eric-Simonson-195x130.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10761\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karanga Camp at 13,000 feet on Kilimanjaro (Eric Simonson)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>IMG guide Chris Meder reports by sat phone that the Kili team had a nice day of hiking today, first climbing the Barranco wall, then traversing below the southern glaciers.\u00c2\u00a0 Now they have reached Karanga which is their camp for tonight.\u00c2\u00a0 This camp (like Barranco where they stayed last night) is at 13,000 feet and these two nights in a row at 13K are great for acclimatization.\u00c2\u00a0 Tomorrow the team will head up to the 15,000 foot high camp at Barafu, getting there early in the day so they have plenty of time for food, hydration, and rest.\u00c2\u00a0 Chris said they had some rain this afternoon, and that there is some fresh snow up high.\u00c2\u00a0 The members are doing well and are getting excited for the summit bid.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Simonson<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 26, 2013 IMG guide Chris Meder reports by sat phone that the Kili team had a nice day of hiking today, first climbing the Barranco wall, then traversing below the southern glaciers.\u00c2\u00a0 Now they have reached Karanga which is their camp for tonight.\u00c2\u00a0 This camp (like Barranco where they stayed last night) is at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10760","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\/10760","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=10760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10762,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10760\/revisions\/10762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}