{"id":24105,"date":"2020-01-28T11:22:06","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T19:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=24105"},"modified":"2020-01-28T11:22:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T19:22:06","slug":"aconcagua-beginning-the-ascent-to-base-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2020\/01\/28\/aconcagua\/aconcagua-beginning-the-ascent-to-base-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Aconcagua: Beginning the Ascent to Base Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January 28, 2020<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-24105 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\/2020\/01\/IMG_5785.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[24105]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_5785-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"On the Road to Penitentes\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-24107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_5785-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_5785-620x465.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_5785-195x146.jpg 195w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_5785.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-1-24107'>\n\t\t\t\tOn the Road to Penitentes\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\/2020\/01\/IMG_5806-rotated.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[24105]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_5806-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-24106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_5806-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_5806-620x465.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_5806-195x146.jpg 195w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_5806-rotated.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-1-24106'>\n\t\t\t\tDinner in Mendoza-Rikki Dunn\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Time to send off another Aconcagua expedition for the season!<\/p>\n<p>Rikki Dunn and Martin Lucero have met the team, shopped, finished packing and are already in Penitentes. They are ready to begin the approach to base camp tomorrow. Three days of walking and they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be at 13,600\u00e2\u20ac\u2122;\u00c2\u00a0 that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s when things get serious and the real work begins.<\/p>\n<p>We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll follow the crew as they work their way up through three additional camps before taking a shot at the summit.\u00c2\u00a0 Aconcagua is a tough one.\u00c2\u00a0 Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wishing them good health and a little luck!<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 28, 2020 Time to send off another Aconcagua expedition for the season! Rikki Dunn and Martin Lucero have met the team, shopped, finished packing and are already in Penitentes. They are ready to begin the approach to base camp tomorrow. Three days of walking and they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be at 13,600\u00e2\u20ac\u2122;\u00c2\u00a0 that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s when things get serious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24105","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\/24105","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=24105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24108,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24105\/revisions\/24108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}