{"id":16932,"date":"2017-02-25T09:40:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T17:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=16932"},"modified":"2017-02-25T09:40:54","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T17:40:54","slug":"good-progress-for-the-kili-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2017\/02\/25\/kilimanjaro\/good-progress-for-the-kili-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Progress for the Kili Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February 25, 2017<\/p>\n<p>IMG senior guide Emily Johnston checked in last night (USA time) with good news. Everyone continues to be happy and healthy. That&#8217;s great to hear and means everyone is acclimating well so far.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16934\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/team2017-karanga_emilyj.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[16932]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16934\" class=\"wp-image-16934 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/team2017-karanga_emilyj.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/team2017-karanga_emilyj.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/team2017-karanga_emilyj-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/team2017-karanga_emilyj-620x426.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/team2017-karanga_emilyj-195x134.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16934\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The team in Karanga Camp after hot drinks and kettle corn (photo: Emily Johnston)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Emily reports the team is also really getting along well and that everyone is having a blast. They are now in Karanga Camp at around 13,300 feet and had a fun day hiking up the Barranco Wall. Though intimidating from Barranco Camp, you soon realize that the Barranco Wall is not nearly as bad as it looks from afar. Just a fun, relatively short hike from Barranco Camp to the top of the wall, then pretty easy hiking into Karanga Camp.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16933\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/barranco-wall_dustin_balderach.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[16932]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16933\" class=\"size-large wp-image-16933\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/barranco-wall_dustin_balderach-1024x433.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/barranco-wall_dustin_balderach-1024x433.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/barranco-wall_dustin_balderach-300x127.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/barranco-wall_dustin_balderach-768x324.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/barranco-wall_dustin_balderach-940x397.jpg 940w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/barranco-wall_dustin_balderach-620x262.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/barranco-wall_dustin_balderach-195x82.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16933\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Top of Barranco Wall (photo: Dustin Balderach)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This was a short day for the team and they had a nice, hot lunch soon after pulling into camp. They started talking about the big day coming up &#8212; logistics, what to pack, what to wear. Very exciting to be getting this close. Then they had the afternoon to relax before dinner.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow is another short day from Karanga Camp up to Barafu High Camp at around 15,200 feet. Bottom line: all continues to go well for the Kili Team.<\/p>\n<p>Dustin Balderach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 25, 2017 IMG senior guide Emily Johnston checked in last night (USA time) with good news. Everyone continues to be happy and healthy. That&#8217;s great to hear and means everyone is acclimating well so far. Emily reports the team is also really getting along well and that everyone is having a blast. 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