{"id":15428,"date":"2016-07-09T12:47:18","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T20:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=15428"},"modified":"2016-07-09T13:27:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-09T21:27:59","slug":"top-of-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2016\/07\/09\/kilimanjaro\/top-of-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Top of Africa!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 9, 2016<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15429\" style=\"width: 522px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Kate.on_.Kili2_.bmp\" rel=\"lightbox[15428]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15429\" class=\"wp-image-15429 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Kate.on_.Kili2_.bmp\" alt=\"&quot;Jumping for Joy&quot; on the summit of Kilimanjaro (from a prior trip)\" width=\"512\" height=\"768\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15429\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Jumping for Joy&#8221; on the summit of Kilimanjaro (from a prior trip)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Received two sat phone calls from Charlotte in the last 24 hours.\u00c2\u00a0 The first (evening of the 8<sup>th<\/sup>, PT) was to let us know that everyone was standing on the top of Africa and the second (this morning, the 9<sup>th<\/sup>) was to let us know that everyone was down at Mweka Camp (10,000 ft.), tired, fed and ready for a well-deserved sleep.\u00c2\u00a0 The hike out will take around 4 hrs. <span data-term=\"goog_615465310\">tomorrow<\/span> and they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be getting showers, putting on clean clothes, eating and drinking, a bunch, and telling a lot of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcwar stories\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 as they celebrate their success with a final team dinner.<\/p>\n<p>Our congratulations to Mark and Lauren, Stephen and Tiffany for being super team members and for climbing with Charlotte and our Chagga crew to the summit of Kilimanjaro.\u00c2\u00a0 They totally nailed this one!<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 9, 2016 Received two sat phone calls from Charlotte in the last 24 hours.\u00c2\u00a0 The first (evening of the 8th, PT) was to let us know that everyone was standing on the top of Africa and the second (this morning, the 9th) was to let us know that everyone was down at Mweka Camp [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15428","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\/15428","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=15428"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15436,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15428\/revisions\/15436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}