{"id":11389,"date":"2013-12-23T11:04:10","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T19:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=11389"},"modified":"2013-12-23T11:04:10","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T19:04:10","slug":"kili-climbers-reach-the-shira-plateau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2013\/12\/23\/kilimanjaro\/kili-climbers-reach-the-shira-plateau\/","title":{"rendered":"Kili Climbers Reach The Shira Plateau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December 23, 2013<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11391\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Sunset-from-Shira-Camp.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[11389]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11391\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11391\" alt=\"Sunset from Shira Camp with the Plateau and Cathedral Peaks in the background (Eric Simonson)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Sunset-from-Shira-Camp.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Sunset-from-Shira-Camp.jpg 648w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Sunset-from-Shira-Camp-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Sunset-from-Shira-Camp-620x413.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Sunset-from-Shira-Camp-195x130.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11391\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunset from Shira Camp with the Plateau and Cathedral Peaks in the background (Eric Simonson)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>IMG guide Max Bunce called on the sat phone to report that the team had a nice hike today up from Machame Camp (about 10,000 feet) to the Shira Camp (about 12,500 feet).\u00c2\u00a0 They are now well above treeline, with expansive views out to the west across Shira Plateau towards the Cathedral Peaks.\u00c2\u00a0 Sounds like everyone is feeling pretty good, the weather is cooperating, and they were getting ready to crawl into their sleeping bags for a good snooze.\u00c2\u00a0 Tomorrow the plan is to ascend to near Lava Tower (about 14,500 feet) then drop down to the Barranco Camp (at about 13,000 feet).\u00c2\u00a0 Climb high, sleep low is the old adage, and it works great on Kilimanjaro.\u00c2\u00a0 The team now has three nights in a row at intermediate altitude (12-13K) with plenty of up and down hiking each day.\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a great way to get prepared for the summit day!<\/p>\n<p>Eric Simonson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 23, 2013 IMG guide Max Bunce called on the sat phone to report that the team had a nice hike today up from Machame Camp (about 10,000 feet) to the Shira Camp (about 12,500 feet).\u00c2\u00a0 They are now well above treeline, with expansive views out to the west across Shira Plateau towards the Cathedral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11389","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\/11389","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=11389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11392,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11389\/revisions\/11392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}