{"id":11429,"date":"2013-12-29T13:07:09","date_gmt":"2013-12-29T21:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=11429"},"modified":"2013-12-29T13:07:09","modified_gmt":"2013-12-29T21:07:09","slug":"vinson-team-at-base-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2013\/12\/29\/vinson-antarctica\/vinson-team-at-base-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinson Team At Base Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December 29, 2013<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11430\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Cockpit-of-an-IL76.2.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[11429]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11430\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11430\" alt=\"Cockpit of an IL76\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Cockpit-of-an-IL76.2.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Cockpit-of-an-IL76.2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Cockpit-of-an-IL76.2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Cockpit-of-an-IL76.2-620x465.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Cockpit-of-an-IL76.2-195x146.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11430\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cockpit of an IL76<\/p><\/div>\n<p>IMG guides Greg Vernovage, Aaron Mainer and their team are on a roll.\u00c2\u00a0 They took off last night aboard an IL76 from Punta Arenas, Chile, heading south.\u00c2\u00a0 A short night was spent at Union Glacier, approximately 80 degree S. latitude.\u00c2\u00a0 This morning they were on another flight aboard a Twin Otter heading for Vinson base camp.\u00c2\u00a0 Their camp is now built and the team is preparing for a carry tomorrow to C1 at around 10,000 ft on Vinson.\u00c2\u00a0 Like most expedition climbs, a carry and then a move to a higher camp is sort of standard procedure.\u00c2\u00a0 Greg reported clear skies and almost no wind.\u00c2\u00a0 Remember, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s light 24\/7 that far south at this time of year.\u00c2\u00a0 No headlamps required on a Vinson climb.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 29, 2013 IMG guides Greg Vernovage, Aaron Mainer and their team are on a roll.\u00c2\u00a0 They took off last night aboard an IL76 from Punta Arenas, Chile, heading south.\u00c2\u00a0 A short night was spent at Union Glacier, approximately 80 degree S. latitude.\u00c2\u00a0 This morning they were on another flight aboard a Twin Otter heading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11430,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vinson-antarctica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11429","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=11429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11431,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11429\/revisions\/11431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}