{"id":22570,"date":"2019-06-28T13:13:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T21:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=22570"},"modified":"2019-06-28T13:13:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T21:13:05","slug":"kili-team-at-shira-camp-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2019\/06\/28\/kilimanjaro\/kili-team-at-shira-camp-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Kili Team at Shira Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 28, 2019<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-22570 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-medium'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/kili7.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[22570]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/kili7-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-22572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/kili7-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/kili7-620x465.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/kili7-195x146.jpg 195w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/kili7.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-22572'>\n\t\t\t\tTeam heading uphill (Phunuru Sherpa)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/kili6.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[22570]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/kili6-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-22571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/kili6-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/kili6-620x465.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/kili6-195x146.jpg 195w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/kili6.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-22571'>\n\t\t\t\tRest break for some shade and a picture (Phunuru Sherpa)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Always fun to field phone calls from Phunuru when he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s guiding Kilimanjaro. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153All\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s well, team\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s great, everything\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s good\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is the typical message and that was certainly the case when he called in Thursday morning, Seattle time. Of course, their day was already over as it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 10 hours later on Kilimanjaro.\u00c2\u00a0 Bottom line is that the team did well getting to Shira Camp, at around 12,500\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re well above the tree line now with unobstructed views of the mountain. Longer day tomorrow. Up past a place called the Lava Tower and then back down to camp at 13,000\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. Climb high, sleep low is the climber\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s adage.\u00c2\u00a0Why? Because it works great for acclimatization.<\/p>\n<p>All remains well in East Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 28, 2019 Always fun to field phone calls from Phunuru when he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s guiding Kilimanjaro. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153All\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s well, team\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s great, everything\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s good\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is the typical message and that was certainly the case when he called in Thursday morning, Seattle time. Of course, their day was already over as it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 10 hours later on Kilimanjaro.\u00c2\u00a0 Bottom line [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kilimanjaro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22570","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=22570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22573,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22570\/revisions\/22573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}