{"id":11408,"date":"2013-12-26T08:27:35","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T16:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=11408"},"modified":"2013-12-26T08:27:35","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T16:27:35","slug":"kili-climbers-ready-for-the-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2013\/12\/26\/kilimanjaro\/kili-climbers-ready-for-the-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Kili Climbers Ready For The Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December 26, 2013<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11409\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Kili-sunset.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[11408]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11409\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11409\" alt=\"Sunrise over Mawenzi peak, on the way to the summit of Kilimanjaro  (Eric Simonson)    \" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Kili-sunset.jpg\" width=\"498\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Kili-sunset.jpg 864w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Kili-sunset-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Kili-sunset-620x413.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Kili-sunset-195x130.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11409\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunrise over Mawenzi peak, on the way to the summit of Kilimanjaro (Eric Simonson)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>IMG guide Max Bunce called to say that the team had all made it up to the Barafu Camp (about 15,000 feet) and are doing well.\u00c2\u00a0 They had a short day today, moving up from Karanga to high camp in time for lunch, followed by an easy afternoon resting and preparing for the summit climb.\u00c2\u00a0 After an early supper they will get some sleep, in preparation for their midnight departure.\u00c2\u00a0 Max reports that the weather is good and that while some snow remains on the upper mountain up towards the crater rim, the trail has been well kicked in by climbers over the last few days. The trip to the summit normally takes 6-7 hours, so we will hope to hear from them shortly after sunrise from the top of Africa!<\/p>\n<p>Eric Simonson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 26, 2013 IMG guide Max Bunce called to say that the team had all made it up to the Barafu Camp (about 15,000 feet) and are doing well.\u00c2\u00a0 They had a short day today, moving up from Karanga to high camp in time for lunch, followed by an easy afternoon resting and preparing for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11408","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\/11408","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=11408"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11411,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11408\/revisions\/11411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}