{"id":181,"date":"2010-01-04T16:28:41","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T00:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=181"},"modified":"2010-01-04T16:30:32","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T00:30:32","slug":"181","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/04\/vinson-antarctica\/181\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinson Team Carried to C2 Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January 4, 2010<\/p>\n<p>Always fun to report that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve heard from our team in Antarctica.\u00c2\u00a0 George Dunn just called in from Vinson Massif.\u00c2\u00a0 The crew was able to carry to high camp today.\u00c2\u00a0 A bit windy and overcast but doable.\u00c2\u00a0 Their loads were cached there and that gear will be waiting for them when they make their final move up.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"510\" height=\"382\" align=\"middle\" title=\"Camp 1 - Just below the fixed ropes (10,000ft).\" alt=\"Camp 1 - Just below the fixed ropes (10,000ft).\" src=\"http:\/\/images2e.snapfish.com\/232323232%7Ffp537%3B9%3Enu%3D337%3B%3E275%3E4%3A3%3EWSNRCG%3D32%3A39483%3C3345nu0mrj\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also good to hear was the fact that the team handled the long fixed ropes that lead towards high camp well.\u00c2\u00a0 1200 meters, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s close to 4000 feet, of rope are followed with the aid of an ascender.\u00c2\u00a0 Provides a little \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcassist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 as a climber is moving up but also serves as a great back up from a safety standpoint.\u00c2\u00a0 George reported that the crew is back at C1 and ready for the upcoming move to high camp.\u00c2\u00a0 Then, one more day of decent weather is needed for the final ascent.\u00c2\u00a0 So far, so good.\u00c2\u00a0 We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll expect another call once the team has been able to establish high camp.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 4, 2010 Always fun to report that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve heard from our team in Antarctica.\u00c2\u00a0 George Dunn just called in from Vinson Massif.\u00c2\u00a0 The crew was able to carry to high camp today.\u00c2\u00a0 A bit windy and overcast but doable.\u00c2\u00a0 Their loads were cached there and that gear will be waiting for them when they [&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-181","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\/181","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=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}