{"id":14809,"date":"2016-01-20T10:39:22","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T18:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=14809"},"modified":"2016-01-20T10:39:22","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T18:39:22","slug":"and-theyre-off-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2016\/01\/20\/aconcagua\/and-theyre-off-9\/","title":{"rendered":"And They&#8217;re Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January 20, 2016<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14810\" style=\"width: 950px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_2508-002.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[14809]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14810\" class=\"wp-image-14810 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_2508-002-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Let the trek to Base Camp begin.\" width=\"940\" height=\"705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_2508-002-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_2508-002-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_2508-002-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_2508-002-940x705.jpg 940w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_2508-002-620x465.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_2508-002-195x146.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14810\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Let the trek to Base Camp begin.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Heard from Luke this morning down in Ecuador.\u00c2\u00a0 They took a good shot at Chimborazo but bullet-proof ice, covered by a centimeter of snow at 18,900 ft, made a safe summit push unreasonable.\u00c2\u00a0 No worries, summits of Cayambe and Antisana and getting this close on Chimborazo is a success in anyone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book.\u00c2\u00a0 Nice late breakfast in Banos where they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll spend the day visiting the local waterfalls and then head back north to Quito and flights home tomorrow.\u00c2\u00a0 This wraps up just a great trip in Ecuador.<\/p>\n<p>On Aconcagua, Jonathan Schrock sent this photo before Martin, the team and he began their approach march.\u00c2\u00a0 Three days of enjoyable walking to get to base camp, Plaza Argentina.\u00c2\u00a0 They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re ready to rock and roll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 20, 2016 Heard from Luke this morning down in Ecuador.\u00c2\u00a0 They took a good shot at Chimborazo but bullet-proof ice, covered by a centimeter of snow at 18,900 ft, made a safe summit push unreasonable.\u00c2\u00a0 No worries, summits of Cayambe and Antisana and getting this close on Chimborazo is a success in anyone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book.\u00c2\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aconcagua"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14809","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=14809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14811,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14809\/revisions\/14811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}