{"id":25988,"date":"2022-06-24T13:40:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T21:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=25988"},"modified":"2022-06-24T13:40:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T21:40:44","slug":"kilimanjaro-is-getting-bigger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2022\/06\/24\/img-news\/kilimanjaro-is-getting-bigger\/","title":{"rendered":"Kilimanjaro is getting bigger!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>IMG guide Phunuru Sherpa reports that our Custom Kili team had a good day today, climbing up to the Shira Camp on the Shira Plateau.\u00c2\u00a0 They were in and out of the clouds as they left the forest and climbed up through the moorland bushes and shrubs, increasingly localized to areas where sufficient water exists for the plants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:28px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/The-Kili-crew-at-Shira-Camp-Phunuru-Sherpa.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[25988]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1035\" height=\"699\" data-id=\"25989\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/The-Kili-crew-at-Shira-Camp-Phunuru-Sherpa.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25989\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/The-Kili-crew-at-Shira-Camp-Phunuru-Sherpa.jpg 1035w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/The-Kili-crew-at-Shira-Camp-Phunuru-Sherpa-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/The-Kili-crew-at-Shira-Camp-Phunuru-Sherpa-1024x692.jpg 1024w, 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down to Barranco Camp at about 13,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:28px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Kili-from-Shira-camp-Phunuru-Sherpa.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[25988]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1512\" height=\"1134\" data-id=\"25990\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Kili-from-Shira-camp-Phunuru-Sherpa.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25990\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Kili-from-Shira-camp-Phunuru-Sherpa.jpg 1512w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Kili-from-Shira-camp-Phunuru-Sherpa-300x225.jpg 300w, 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