{"id":16922,"date":"2017-02-24T08:51:16","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T16:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=16922"},"modified":"2017-02-24T08:51:16","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T16:51:16","slug":"happy-healthy-climbers-on-kili","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2017\/02\/24\/kilimanjaro\/happy-healthy-climbers-on-kili\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy, Healthy Climbers On Kili"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February 24, 2017<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-16922 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-medium'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2017\/02\/24\/kilimanjaro\/happy-healthy-climbers-on-kili\/attachment\/emily1\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/emily1-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Breakfast at Machame Camp (Photo: Emily Johnston)\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-16923\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/emily1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/emily1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/emily1-940x705.jpg 940w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/emily1-620x465.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/emily1-195x146.jpg 195w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/emily1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-16923'>\n\t\t\t\tBreakfast at Machame Camp (Photo: Emily Johnston)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2017\/02\/24\/kilimanjaro\/happy-healthy-climbers-on-kili\/attachment\/emily\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/emily-300x185.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Kili Team approaching Shira Camp (Photo: Emily Johnston)\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-16924\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/emily-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/emily-768x473.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/emily-940x579.jpg 940w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/emily-620x382.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/emily-195x120.jpg 195w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/emily.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-16924'>\n\t\t\t\tKili Team approaching Shira Camp (Photo: Emily Johnston)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>IMG senior guide Emily Johnston checked in from Shira Camp and reports &#8220;All is well! It rained much of the day, but no one seemed\u00c2\u00a0to mind! There&#8217;s a cribbage tournament going on in the dining tent. Everyone is happy, and feeling good!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d A little rain is pretty typical at some point on Kili, since it is surrounded by rain forest and is 3 degrees south of the equator. \u00c2\u00a0Today was another great day for the team and a big milestone to make it up to the Shira Plateau at about 12,500 feet. Tomorrow is a big day. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll hike from Shira Camp up to Lava Tower (~15,000 feet) and then drop back down to Barranco Camp (13,000 feet). \u00c2\u00a0It is a really beautiful day of trekking, and great acclimatization.\u00c2\u00a0 The trek to Barranco is the second longest after summit day, but the views of Kili and the southern glaciers are more than worth it. All continues to go smoothly for this strong Kili Team!<\/p>\n<p>Dustin Balderach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 24, 2017 &nbsp; IMG senior guide Emily Johnston checked in from Shira Camp and reports &#8220;All is well! It rained much of the day, but no one seemed\u00c2\u00a0to mind! There&#8217;s a cribbage tournament going on in the dining tent. Everyone is happy, and feeling good!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d A little rain is pretty typical at some point [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16922","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\/16922","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=16922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16926,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16922\/revisions\/16926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}