{"id":23485,"date":"2019-09-29T08:36:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T16:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=23485"},"modified":"2019-09-29T08:36:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T16:36:00","slug":"kili-climbers-reach-barafu-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2019\/09\/29\/kilimanjaro\/kili-climbers-reach-barafu-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Kili climbers reach Barafu Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 29, 2019<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-23485 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><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\/09\/On-the-way-to-Barafu-Camp-Eric-Simonson.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[23485]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/On-the-way-to-Barafu-Camp-Eric-Simonson-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"On the way to Barafu Camp (Eric Simonson)\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-23486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/On-the-way-to-Barafu-Camp-Eric-Simonson-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/On-the-way-to-Barafu-Camp-Eric-Simonson-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/On-the-way-to-Barafu-Camp-Eric-Simonson-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/On-the-way-to-Barafu-Camp-Eric-Simonson-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-23486'>\n\t\t\t\tOn the way to Barafu Camp (Eric Simonson)\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\/09\/Lunch-at-Barafu-Camp-Phunuru-Sherpa.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[23485]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Lunch-at-Barafu-Camp-Phunuru-Sherpa-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Lunch at Barafu Camp (Phunuru Sherpa)\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-23487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Lunch-at-Barafu-Camp-Phunuru-Sherpa-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Lunch-at-Barafu-Camp-Phunuru-Sherpa-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Lunch-at-Barafu-Camp-Phunuru-Sherpa-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Lunch-at-Barafu-Camp-Phunuru-Sherpa-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-23487'>\n\t\t\t\tLunch at Barafu Camp (Phunuru Sherpa)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Harry Hamlin reports that the team is ready to go for their summit bid!\u00c2\u00a0 They had a nice hike up to Barafu Camp today, at about 15,000 feet.\u00c2\u00a0 As planned, they got there in time for lunch and then had all afternoon to get packed and then get horizontal (lie down for rest!). \u00c2\u00a0After an early dinner they were heading to bed, in preparation for starting the climb at midnight.\u00c2\u00a0 With a little luck, they should reach the summit right after sunrise and then have the remainder of the day to descend to the thick air down at Mweka Camp (about 11,000 feet)!\u00c2\u00a0 Harry says everyone is doing well and the weather looks to be cooperating.\u00c2\u00a0 Best wishes for the team on their big day tomorrow!<\/p>\n<p>Eric Simonson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 29, 2019 &nbsp; Harry Hamlin reports that the team is ready to go for their summit bid!\u00c2\u00a0 They had a nice hike up to Barafu Camp today, at about 15,000 feet.\u00c2\u00a0 As planned, they got there in time for lunch and then had all afternoon to get packed and then get horizontal (lie down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23485","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\/23485","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=23485"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23490,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23485\/revisions\/23490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}