{"id":18368,"date":"2017-12-08T13:15:36","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T21:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=18368"},"modified":"2017-12-08T13:15:36","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T21:15:36","slug":"winds-decreasing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2017\/12\/08\/vinson-antarctica\/winds-decreasing\/","title":{"rendered":"Winds Decreasing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December 8th, 2017<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18369\" style=\"width: 1714px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Approaching-high-camp.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[18368]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18369\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18369\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Approaching-high-camp.jpg\" alt=\"Approaching high camp with Shinn in the background (from previous expedition) \" width=\"1704\" height=\"2272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Approaching-high-camp.jpg 1704w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Approaching-high-camp-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Approaching-high-camp-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Approaching-high-camp-940x1253.jpg 940w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Approaching-high-camp-620x827.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Approaching-high-camp-146x195.jpg 146w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1704px) 100vw, 1704px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18369\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Approaching high camp with Shinn in the background (from previous expedition)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Forecast is reasonably good and the winds have decreased down on the Ice.\u00c2\u00a0 Justin reported this morning that the team was packing up at C1 and going to attempt their move to high camp today.\u00c2\u00a0 No news is typically good news so we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re hoping the team is continuing with that plan and will be able to reach high camp today.<\/p>\n<p>We likely won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have that news until late today.\u00c2\u00a0 As always, fingers are crossed and weather will continue to play a large role in the team\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s climbing plans.<\/p>\n<p>A successful trip to high camp today could mean a shot at the summit tomorrow.\u00c2\u00a0 Entirely speculation but we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re hopeful.<\/p>\n<p>Check back tomorrow and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll get updates on the site as soon as we can.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 8th, 2017 Forecast is reasonably good and the winds have decreased down on the Ice.\u00c2\u00a0 Justin reported this morning that the team was packing up at C1 and going to attempt their move to high camp today.\u00c2\u00a0 No news is typically good news so we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re hoping the team is continuing with that plan and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18368","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\/18368","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=18368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18370,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18368\/revisions\/18370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}