{"id":18396,"date":"2017-12-13T14:34:33","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T22:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=18396"},"modified":"2017-12-13T14:34:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T22:34:33","slug":"making-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2017\/12\/13\/vinson-antarctica\/making-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December 13th, 2017<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18397\" style=\"width: 1714px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Vinson-from-the-Air.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[18396]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18397\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18397\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Vinson-from-the-Air.jpg\" alt=\"Vinson from the Air\" width=\"1704\" height=\"2272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Vinson-from-the-Air.jpg 1704w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Vinson-from-the-Air-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Vinson-from-the-Air-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Vinson-from-the-Air-940x1253.jpg 940w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Vinson-from-the-Air-620x827.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Vinson-from-the-Air-146x195.jpg 146w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1704px) 100vw, 1704px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18397\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vinson from the Air<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The team was able to fly from Vinson base camp to Union Glacier camp today.\u00c2\u00a0 A small step but an important one.\u00c2\u00a0 They are now totally comfortable in the big ALE base camp, with all meals prepared for them and served in a large, heated mess tent with tables and chairs and 24 hour hot water.\u00c2\u00a0 Life is good.<\/p>\n<p>Flight to Punta Arenas is scheduled now for the 15<sup>th<\/sup>, at the earliest.\u00c2\u00a0 Weather still is the determining factor.\u00c2\u00a0 Time to read, talk, play cards and eat, with a cup of coffee or tea in your hand the entire time.\u00c2\u00a0 No one is suffering.\u00c2\u00a0 In a couple of days they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll all be home and missing the beauty that is Antarctica.\u00c2\u00a0 We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll let you know when they fly.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 13th, 2017 The team was able to fly from Vinson base camp to Union Glacier camp today.\u00c2\u00a0 A small step but an important one.\u00c2\u00a0 They are now totally comfortable in the big ALE base camp, with all meals prepared for them and served in a large, heated mess tent with tables and chairs and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18396","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\/18396","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=18396"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18399,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18396\/revisions\/18399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}