{"id":12438,"date":"2014-08-24T11:44:24","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T19:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=12438"},"modified":"2014-08-24T11:44:24","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T19:44:24","slug":"on-the-road-to-illimani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2014\/08\/24\/bolivia\/on-the-road-to-illimani\/","title":{"rendered":"On The Road To Illimani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August 24, 2014<\/p>\n<p>Luke checked in early this morning.\u00c2\u00a0 The team had a great day off yesterday.\u00c2\u00a0 They are rested and ready to hit the road to Illimani Base Camp.<\/p>\n<p>From the minute the team leaves the hotel, they are heading in a different direction. Lake Titicaca, Pequeno Alpamayo and Huayna Potosi are all uphill from La Paz. Illimani heads down valley. The road weaves up and down and through many small villages.\u00c2\u00a0 The team will take the road to its end and meet the donkeys and porters. Once they organize gear, what better than to have a little picnic before heading up to Base Camp!\u00c2\u00a0 Illimani Base Camp is set next to a great stream of water directly off the glacier of Illimani. I believe the ground is like a mattress, soft and comfortable for a night or two of sleep.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-12438 gallery-columns-3 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\/2014\/08\/Illimani.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[12438]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Illimani-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-12439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Illimani-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Illimani-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Illimani-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Illimani-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-1-12439'>\n\t\t\t\tIllimani (Viki Tracey)\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\/2014\/08\/The-winding-road.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[12438]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/The-winding-road-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-12440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/The-winding-road-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/The-winding-road-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/The-winding-road-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/The-winding-road-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-1-12440'>\n\t\t\t\tThe winding road (Viki Tracey)\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\/2014\/08\/Best-base-camp.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[12438]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Best-base-camp-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-12441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Best-base-camp-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Best-base-camp-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Best-base-camp-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Best-base-camp-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-1-12441'>\n\t\t\t\tBest basecamp (Viki Tracey)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Tonight, they will see the sun set over the Altiplano the lights glow in La Paz and El Alto. To the North will be Huayna Potosi.<\/p>\n<p>Luke said the team is ready to go!\u00c2\u00a0 What does that mean to Luke? He said that he brought all three of his puffy coats and plenty of hand warmers.\u00c2\u00a0 It can be a little cool on their summit push, they climb in the shade until the sun hits them on the summit ridge!<\/p>\n<p>Greg Vernovage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 24, 2014 Luke checked in early this morning.\u00c2\u00a0 The team had a great day off yesterday.\u00c2\u00a0 They are rested and ready to hit the road to Illimani Base Camp. From the minute the team leaves the hotel, they are heading in a different direction. Lake Titicaca, Pequeno Alpamayo and Huayna Potosi are all uphill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bolivia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12438","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=12438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12442,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12438\/revisions\/12442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}