{"id":21486,"date":"2019-01-07T10:45:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T18:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=21486"},"modified":"2019-01-07T10:45:41","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T18:45:41","slug":"round-3-on-aconcagua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2019\/01\/07\/aconcagua\/round-3-on-aconcagua\/","title":{"rendered":"Round 3 on Aconcagua"},"content":{"rendered":"

January 7, 2019<\/p>\n

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Thumbs Up! (Nickel Wood)<\/p><\/div>\n

Two down and our third Aconcagua expedition is on deck.\u00c2\u00a0 IMG Guides Nickel Wood, Martin Lucero, and their team are in Mendoza putting final touches on shopping and packing.\u00c2\u00a0 Everyone arrived without major issues and with all luggage.\u00c2\u00a0 Nice to have cleared that hurdle.\u00c2\u00a0 Two nights in Mendoza to wrap preparations and secure the climbing permit and then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s off to Penitentes, at the foot of Aconcagua.\u00c2\u00a0 One more night there to prep \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcmules loads\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.\u00c2\u00a0 The group uses mules to get the bulk of the group gear to base camp at Plaza Argentina (approx. 13,600\u00e2\u20ac\u2122).<\/p>\n

It’s an exciting time.\u00c2\u00a0 They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been doing their homework for months and the excitement is palpable.\u00c2\u00a0 Enjoy Mendoza, meet your team mates, put final touches on your gear and then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s game time.\u00c2\u00a0 Stay tuned.\u00c2\u00a0 Aconcagua is a big mountain and a serious challenge.\u00c2\u00a0 23,000\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 is high!<\/p>\n

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

January 7, 2019 Two down and our third Aconcagua expedition is on deck.\u00c2\u00a0 IMG Guides Nickel Wood, Martin Lucero, and their team are in Mendoza putting final touches on shopping and packing.\u00c2\u00a0 Everyone arrived without major issues and with all luggage.\u00c2\u00a0 Nice to have cleared that hurdle.\u00c2\u00a0 Two nights in Mendoza to wrap preparations and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aconcagua"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21486","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=21486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21488,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21486\/revisions\/21488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}