{"id":208,"date":"2010-02-04T09:25:55","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T17:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=208"},"modified":"2010-02-04T09:25:55","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T17:25:55","slug":"february-kilimanjaro-team-reaches-the-shira-plateau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/04\/kilimanjaro\/february-kilimanjaro-team-reaches-the-shira-plateau\/","title":{"rendered":"February Kilimanjaro Team Reaches The Shira Plateau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February 4, 2010<\/p>\n<p>IMG guide Eben Reckord reports that all is well with the February IMG Kilimanjaro team.\u00c2\u00a0 After two days of climbing through the forest and scrub of the lower slopes of the mountain, the team has now reached the expansive Shira Plateau, at about 12,000 feet.\u00c2\u00a0 This wide volcanic plateau covers the southwest side of the mountain, and marks the beginning of the long traverse the team will make around the south side of Kilimanjaro.\u00c2\u00a0 The next three days will be excellent acclimatization and is some of the most spectacular high altitude hiking anywhere in the world.\u00c2\u00a0 From Shira, they trek east below the glaciers and ice falls to Barranco, Karanga, and Barafu camps!\u00c2\u00a0 We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll keep you posted on the team\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s progress.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Simonson<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" alt=\"Shira Plateau, Kilimanjaro\" title=\"Shira Plateau, Kilimanjaro\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 333px\" src=\"http:\/\/images2e.snapfish.com\/232323232%7Ffp53833%3Enu%3D337%3B%3E275%3E4%3A3%3EWSNRCG%3D32%3A8%3B34%3A%3A9345nu0mrj\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 4, 2010 IMG guide Eben Reckord reports that all is well with the February IMG Kilimanjaro team.\u00c2\u00a0 After two days of climbing through the forest and scrub of the lower slopes of the mountain, the team has now reached the expansive Shira Plateau, at about 12,000 feet.\u00c2\u00a0 This wide volcanic plateau covers the southwest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kilimanjaro","tag-snow-anchors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","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=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}