{"id":16445,"date":"2016-12-28T08:13:02","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T16:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=16445"},"modified":"2016-12-28T08:13:02","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T16:13:02","slug":"vinson-team-ready-to-go-in-punta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2016\/12\/28\/vinson-antarctica\/vinson-team-ready-to-go-in-punta\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinson Team Ready to Go in Punta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December, 28 2016<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16446\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Greg-with-his-crew-in-Punta-e1482941304257.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[16445]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16446\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16446\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Greg-with-his-crew-in-Punta-e1482941304257.jpg\" alt=\"Greg with his crew in Punta\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Greg-with-his-crew-in-Punta-e1482941304257.jpg 480w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Greg-with-his-crew-in-Punta-e1482941304257-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Greg-with-his-crew-in-Punta-e1482941304257-146x195.jpg 146w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16446\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greg with his crew in Punta<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Time to check in with Vinson Trip #2.\u00c2\u00a0 IMG Senior Guide, Greg Vernovage, is again leading our \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcholiday trip\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.\u00c2\u00a0 The team has arrived in Punta Arenas, Chile.\u00c2\u00a0 Punta is the jumping off point for our trips to Vinson Massif, the highest mountain on the Antarctic continent.\u00c2\u00a0 Gear checks have already been conducted.\u00c2\u00a0 You can imagine, those are fairly important when heading to Antarctica.\u00c2\u00a0 Group and personal gear gets picked up tomorrow and the IL 76 (big Russian cargo jet) gets loaded for the trip to the Union Glacier at about 80 degrees S. latitude.\u00c2\u00a0 The team will also participate in an orientation tomorrow, where they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll learn about safety, ecology, logistics, etc. for their trip to the Ice.<\/p>\n<p>A trip to Antarctica is one \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcheck\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 of a way to start the new year.\u00c2\u00a0 With any luck, Vinson base camp is exactly where they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be come New Year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Eve.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December, 28 2016 Time to check in with Vinson Trip #2.\u00c2\u00a0 IMG Senior Guide, Greg Vernovage, is again leading our \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcholiday trip\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.\u00c2\u00a0 The team has arrived in Punta Arenas, Chile.\u00c2\u00a0 Punta is the jumping off point for our trips to Vinson Massif, the highest mountain on the Antarctic continent.\u00c2\u00a0 Gear checks have already been conducted.\u00c2\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16445","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\/16445","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=16445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16447,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16445\/revisions\/16447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}