{"id":2466,"date":"2010-12-23T10:40:43","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T18:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=2466"},"modified":"2010-12-23T10:40:43","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T18:40:43","slug":"kili-climbers-reach-shira-plateau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/23\/kilimanjaro\/kili-climbers-reach-shira-plateau\/","title":{"rendered":"Kili Climbers Reach Shira Plateau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December 23, 2010<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2467\" style=\"width: 215px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Shira-Plateau-Camp-looking-south-over-Shira-Cathedral-Peaks.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"lightbox[2466]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2467\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2467 \" title=\"Shira Plateau Camp looking south over Shira Cathedral Peaks.\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Shira-Plateau-Camp-looking-south-over-Shira-Cathedral-Peaks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Shira-Plateau-Camp-looking-south-over-Shira-Cathedral-Peaks.jpg 2160w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Shira-Plateau-Camp-looking-south-over-Shira-Cathedral-Peaks-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Shira-Plateau-Camp-looking-south-over-Shira-Cathedral-Peaks-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2467\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shira Plateau Camp looking south over Shira Cathedral Peaks.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ang  Jangbu Sherpa reports that the Kili trip is going smoothly.\u00c2\u00a0 After the  hiccups at the beginning with the missing luggage (all but two of the  missing team duffels from the travel chaos in Europe finally showed up  just before their departure) the team had a nice hike yesterday up  through the forest to Machame Camp (at about 10,000 feet).\u00c2\u00a0 They had a  little rain during the day (that is why the forest is so lush!) but  later in the afternoon the skies cleared and they had nice views of Kili  from the camp in the evening.\u00c2\u00a0 Today the team took a nice slow 6 hour  pace up to Shira Plateau (about 12,500 feet).\u00c2\u00a0 During the afternoon the  clouds came in, but there was no rain, and again it cleared up in the  evening.\u00c2\u00a0 Jangbu says everyone is doing well, with only a few minor  headaches, which is good news.\u00c2\u00a0 If there is one thing we have learned  over the years, it is the importance of really taking it easy for the  first few days, to ensure good acclimatization!\u00c2\u00a0 Tomorrow the team  climbs to 14,500 at Lava Tower, then drops down to 13,000 at Barranco  Camp.<\/p>\n<p>So far, so good!<\/p>\n<p>Eric Simonson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 23, 2010 Ang Jangbu Sherpa reports that the Kili trip is going smoothly.\u00c2\u00a0 After the hiccups at the beginning with the missing luggage (all but two of the missing team duffels from the travel chaos in Europe finally showed up just before their departure) the team had a nice hike yesterday up through the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kilimanjaro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466","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=2466"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2469,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466\/revisions\/2469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}