{"id":16304,"date":"2016-11-27T18:03:45","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T02:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=16304"},"modified":"2016-11-27T18:03:45","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T02:03:45","slug":"first-img-antarctica-team-ready-to-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2016\/11\/27\/vinson-antarctica\/first-img-antarctica-team-ready-to-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"First IMG Antarctica Team Ready to Fly Onto the Ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November 27, 2016<\/p>\n<p>The 2016\/17 Vinson Massif season has begun.\u00c2\u00a0 Only a few potential &#8216;screw ups&#8217; with arrivals, but at the end of the day, all&#8217;s well that ends well.\u00c2\u00a0 Everyone showed up in Punta in time and with all their luggage in tow.\u00c2\u00a0 Ideally, the team would have flown in the morning of the 26th, but flying onto the Ice with only a 24 hour delay ain&#8217;t bad.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16305\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016hamill-team.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[16304]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16305\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16305\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016hamill-team.jpg\" alt=\"IMG guide Mike Hamill with the first IMG Vinson team\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016hamill-team.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016hamill-team-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016hamill-team-620x465.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016hamill-team-195x146.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16305\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">IMG guide Mike Hamill with the first IMG Vinson team<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mike Hamill, for the umpteenth time, is again at the helm.\u00c2\u00a0 I always liked going in on the first Vinson expedition for the season.\u00c2\u00a0 Mountain is fresh, aircraft are in top shape and all the staff down in Antarctica are excited to get going.\u00c2\u00a0 A little chilly, typically, but it IS Antarctica, after all.<\/p>\n<p>Follow along and see how it all unfolds.\u00c2\u00a0 The crew&#8217;s excited to go climb Vinson.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 27, 2016 The 2016\/17 Vinson Massif season has begun.\u00c2\u00a0 Only a few potential &#8216;screw ups&#8217; with arrivals, but at the end of the day, all&#8217;s well that ends well.\u00c2\u00a0 Everyone showed up in Punta in time and with all their luggage in tow.\u00c2\u00a0 Ideally, the team would have flown in the morning of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16304","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\/16304","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16306,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16304\/revisions\/16306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}