{"id":10769,"date":"2013-09-27T07:43:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T15:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=10769"},"modified":"2013-09-27T07:43:40","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T15:43:40","slug":"kili-climbers-leaving-tonight-for-the-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/27\/kilimanjaro\/kili-climbers-leaving-tonight-for-the-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Kili Climbers Leaving Tonight For The Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 27, 2013<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-10769 gallery-columns-2 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\/IMG-climbers-in-the-dining-tent-Chris-Meder.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[10769]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG-climbers-in-the-dining-tent-Chris-Meder-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-10770\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG-climbers-in-the-dining-tent-Chris-Meder-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG-climbers-in-the-dining-tent-Chris-Meder-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG-climbers-in-the-dining-tent-Chris-Meder-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG-climbers-in-the-dining-tent-Chris-Meder-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-1-10770'>\n\t\t\t\tIMG climbers in the dining tent  (Chris Meder) \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\/Barafu-Camp-15000-feet-and-the-route-heading-up-to-the-summit-Eric-Simonson.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[10769]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Barafu-Camp-15000-feet-and-the-route-heading-up-to-the-summit-Eric-Simonson-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-10771\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Barafu-Camp-15000-feet-and-the-route-heading-up-to-the-summit-Eric-Simonson-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Barafu-Camp-15000-feet-and-the-route-heading-up-to-the-summit-Eric-Simonson-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Barafu-Camp-15000-feet-and-the-route-heading-up-to-the-summit-Eric-Simonson-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Barafu-Camp-15000-feet-and-the-route-heading-up-to-the-summit-Eric-Simonson-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-1-10771'>\n\t\t\t\tBarafu Camp (15,000 feet) and the route heading up to the summit  (Eric Simonson)\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>IMG guide Chris Meder sent this message:\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;The group made good progress today arriving at Barafu just after noon.\u00c2\u00a0 The weather continues to be unsettled, with sleet turning to snow by the time we reached high camp.\u00c2\u00a0 Short clearings showed no accumulation on the upper mountain so we should be in pretty good shape for the summit climb.\u00c2\u00a0 We had a big lunch\/dinner this afternoon, and after final preparations everyone is in bed.\u00c2\u00a0 The alarm goes off at 11 pm and we&#8217;ll start climbing around midnight after a quick breakfast. Everyone is doing well with the altitude and continues to maintain a great attitude despite less than ideal weather.\u00c2\u00a0 This group is ready.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ll try to check in from the summit!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Eric Simonson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 27, 2013 IMG guide Chris Meder sent this message:\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;The group made good progress today arriving at Barafu just after noon.\u00c2\u00a0 The weather continues to be unsettled, with sleet turning to snow by the time we reached high camp.\u00c2\u00a0 Short clearings showed no accumulation on the upper mountain so we should be in pretty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10770,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10769","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\/10769","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=10769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10772,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10769\/revisions\/10772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}