{"id":11520,"date":"2014-01-13T08:28:05","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T16:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=11520"},"modified":"2014-01-13T09:20:34","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T17:20:34","slug":"weekend-update-from-south-america-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2014\/01\/13\/aconcagua\/weekend-update-from-south-america-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Update From South America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January 13, 2014<\/p>\n<p>With so many groups on the move during the last couple of days, let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s get everyone up to date regarding movements.<\/p>\n<p>Greg, Aaron and their Vinson crew are done and home.\u00c2\u00a0 Wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t easy to get everyone rebooked with flights home but Pirjo and CTT Destinations did a super job.\u00c2\u00a0 There is still great value derived from working with an experienced travel agent on complicated international flights and we saw it this weekend.\u00c2\u00a0 Glad to have everyone home and everyone successful and everyone with 10 fingers and toes.\u00c2\u00a0 Nice!<\/p>\n<p>Luke, Romulo and the Ecuador team did some acclimatizing and taking in some of the sights.\u00c2\u00a0 Crossed the equator a couple of times, too.\u00c2\u00a0 At the base of Cotopaxi now, getting in some more acclimatizing and training prior to taking a shot at their first, big objective.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11521\" style=\"width: 506px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Luke-and-team-on-Pasochoa.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[11520]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11521\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11521\" alt=\"Luke and team on Pasochoa\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Luke-and-team-on-Pasochoa.jpg\" width=\"496\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Luke-and-team-on-Pasochoa.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Luke-and-team-on-Pasochoa-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Luke-and-team-on-Pasochoa-620x465.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Luke-and-team-on-Pasochoa-195x146.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11521\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luke and team on Pasochoa<\/p><\/div>\n<p>News from Aconcagua:\u00c2\u00a0 Josh McD and team are now back in the States after their very successful summit.\u00c2\u00a0 Well done.\u00c2\u00a0 I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be debriefing with Josh today.\u00c2\u00a0 Josh Tapp and team has decided to take a rest day at Plaza Argentina after a big carry to C1 yesterday.\u00c2\u00a0 If in doubt, a rest day is always in order.\u00c2\u00a0 Just got off the phone with Peter Anderson.\u00c2\u00a0 He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s working away with Peter Adams and Leandro Villegas, getting their final packing done.\u00c2\u00a0 Team members continue to arrive.\u00c2\u00a0 Weather on the East Coast hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t made it easy but hopeful that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll see everyone today.\u00c2\u00a0 Gear checks, registration and permits need to get completed prior to heading up to the mountain.\u00c2\u00a0 Lastly, Mike Hamill and his custom group are winging their way south today.\u00c2\u00a0 Who knows \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Mike and Peter could potentially end up seeing each other on the summit, coming up from two entirely different routes.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 13, 2014 With so many groups on the move during the last couple of days, let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s get everyone up to date regarding movements. Greg, Aaron and their Vinson crew are done and home.\u00c2\u00a0 Wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t easy to get everyone rebooked with flights home but Pirjo and CTT Destinations did a super job.\u00c2\u00a0 There is still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,32,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aconcagua","category-ecuador-volcanoes","category-vinson-antarctica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11520","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=11520"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11524,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11520\/revisions\/11524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}