{"id":178,"date":"2009-12-28T15:28:07","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T23:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=178"},"modified":"2009-12-28T15:28:07","modified_gmt":"2009-12-28T23:28:07","slug":"vinson-team-waiting-to-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/28\/vinson-antarctica\/vinson-team-waiting-to-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinson Team Waiting To Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December 28, 2009<\/p>\n<p>Heard from George Dunn down in Punta Arenas today.\u00c2\u00a0 The crew all made it in and with all their luggage.\u00c2\u00a0 That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s never a small feat.\u00c2\u00a0 They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re packed and ready to go.\u00c2\u00a0 The flight service that all Vinson climbers use, ALE, has held an orientation for everyone flying to the Ice, the IL 76, the plane in which they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll fly to the Ice, is loaded and now it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a matter of the weather.\u00c2\u00a0 Flight parameters are fairly narrow when you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re talking about flying to the middle of Antarctica and everything has to be right.\u00c2\u00a0 With any luck, the team is out late tonight or perhaps in morning.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"374\" align=\"middle\" width=\"499\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/photos\/vinson\/bs_ilyushin.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Regardless, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll get there, get over to Vinson and get the job done.\u00c2\u00a0 Every Vinson climb involves a bit of waiting for good flying conditions.\u00c2\u00a0 We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re just glad that the crew is ready to go.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 28, 2009 Heard from George Dunn down in Punta Arenas today.\u00c2\u00a0 The crew all made it in and with all their luggage.\u00c2\u00a0 That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s never a small feat.\u00c2\u00a0 They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re packed and ready to go.\u00c2\u00a0 The flight service that all Vinson climbers use, ALE, has held an orientation for everyone flying to the Ice, the IL [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vinson-antarctica","tag-snow-anchors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","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=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}