{"id":18313,"date":"2017-11-28T10:15:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T18:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=18313"},"modified":"2017-11-28T10:15:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T18:15:59","slug":"standing-by-on-the-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2017\/11\/28\/vinson-antarctica\/standing-by-on-the-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Standing By on the Ice"},"content":{"rendered":"

November 28, 2017<\/p>\n

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The \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcIL\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 on the Ice<\/p><\/div>\n

Good news is that our team flew in exactly on schedule on Sunday.\u00c2\u00a0 The flight from Punta Arenas to Union Glacier is on a Russian IL76.\u00c2\u00a0 That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a big, 1970\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s era cargo jet.\u00c2\u00a0 From there, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about another hour on a Twin Otter to reach Vinson base camp.\u00c2\u00a0 All flight legs require good weather and visibility.\u00c2\u00a0 The team is first in line for the flight to Vinson base camp but needs just a little more clearing to make it happen.\u00c2\u00a0 A good motto when it comes to flights is —– \u00e2\u20ac\u0153when in doubt, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.\u00c2\u00a0 ALE, the flight service, has an impeccable safety record and we want them to keep it that way.<\/p>\n

Life at Union Glacier is CUSH beyond belief.\u00c2\u00a0 Believe me, the team is not suffering.\u00c2\u00a0 I just hope they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not getting too comfortable!<\/p>\n

As soon as possible, our team will be on their way over to VBC, putting the boots on and working their way up the mountain.\u00c2\u00a0 All is just fine in Antarctica.<\/p>\n

Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

November 28, 2017 Good news is that our team flew in exactly on schedule on Sunday.\u00c2\u00a0 The flight from Punta Arenas to Union Glacier is on a Russian IL76.\u00c2\u00a0 That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a big, 1970\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s era cargo jet.\u00c2\u00a0 From there, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about another hour on a Twin Otter to reach Vinson base camp.\u00c2\u00a0 All flight legs require […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vinson-antarctica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18313","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=18313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18315,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18313\/revisions\/18315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}