{"id":16610,"date":"2017-01-08T14:35:01","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T22:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=16610"},"modified":"2017-01-08T14:35:01","modified_gmt":"2017-01-08T22:35:01","slug":"imgs-antarctica-aconcagua-and-ecuador-teams-in-motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2017\/01\/08\/aconcagua\/imgs-antarctica-aconcagua-and-ecuador-teams-in-motion\/","title":{"rendered":"IMG&#8217;s Antarctica, Aconcagua and Ecuador Teams in Motion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January 08, 2017<\/p>\n<p>Time for a 3 for 1 blog post.\u00c2\u00a0 First, Greg and crew are still sitting pretty at Union Glacier at about 80 degrees S. in Antarctica.\u00c2\u00a0 With a little luck, the IL76 flies tomorrow.\u00c2\u00a0 Weather is the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcboss\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 so we won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really know until tomorrow.\u00c2\u00a0 Vinson is in their rear view mirror so no problem, one way or the other.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16612\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/plane-il76b.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[16610]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16612\" class=\"wp-image-16612 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/plane-il76b-1024x721.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/plane-il76b-1024x721.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/plane-il76b-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/plane-il76b-768x541.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/plane-il76b-940x662.jpg 940w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/plane-il76b-620x436.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/plane-il76b-195x137.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16612\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greg and team hope to see one of these soon &#8212; the Russian Ilyushin76 cargo plane<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On Aconcagua, Josh reported that the team has made their descent to Plaza Mulas, base camp on the Horcones side.\u00c2\u00a0 They&#8217;re doing some repacking, resting and a bunch of eating.\u00c2\u00a0 They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be in Mendoza late tomorrow evening and back at the hotel there for the night.\u00c2\u00a0 All is totally good with the crew.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16611\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/summit2017-josh2.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[16610]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16611\" class=\"wp-image-16611 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/summit2017-josh2-1024x628.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/summit2017-josh2-1024x628.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/summit2017-josh2-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/summit2017-josh2-768x471.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/summit2017-josh2-940x576.jpg 940w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/summit2017-josh2-620x380.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/summit2017-josh2-195x120.jpg 195w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/summit2017-josh2.jpg 1580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16611\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josh&#8217;s IMG team on the Summit of Aconcagua<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In Ecuador, well, travel was an epic for Luke and two of our climbers.\u00c2\u00a0 Their flight was delayed for over 24 hours but they arrived, got reunited with the rest of the team and things are in full swing in Ecuador.\u00c2\u00a0 They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve visiting Old Town, the Otavalo Market, a weaver friend in Peguche, had dinner at the Hacienda Pinsaqui, hike Fuya Fuya yesterday and are getting in another hiking\/acclimatization day on Imbabura today.\u00c2\u00a0 Everything\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcgo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 08, 2017 Time for a 3 for 1 blog post.\u00c2\u00a0 First, Greg and crew are still sitting pretty at Union Glacier at about 80 degrees S. in Antarctica.\u00c2\u00a0 With a little luck, the IL76 flies tomorrow.\u00c2\u00a0 Weather is the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcboss\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 so we won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really know until tomorrow.\u00c2\u00a0 Vinson is in their rear view mirror [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,32,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aconcagua","category-ecuador-volcanoes","category-vinson-antarctica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16610","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=16610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16613,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16610\/revisions\/16613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}