{"id":26504,"date":"2022-12-29T08:46:50","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T16:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=26504"},"modified":"2022-12-29T16:37:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T00:37:07","slug":"vinson-team-departs-punta-arenas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2022\/12\/29\/vinson-antarctica\/vinson-team-departs-punta-arenas\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinson Team Departs Punta Arenas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dec 29, 2022 &#8211; IMG Chief Guide Justin Merle called this morning to report that the IMG Vinson team landed safely at Union Glacier. The conditions were windy in Punta Arenas, but the Boing 757 bound for Antarctica soon took off shuttling the team south. The team will wait at Union Glacier until weather allows them to fly to Vinson Base Camp via a smaller Twin Otter plane. All is well in Antarctica!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_26505\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ALE-757-scaled.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[26504]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26505\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26505\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ALE-757-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ALE-757-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ALE-757-1024x695.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ALE-757-768x521.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ALE-757-1536x1042.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ALE-757-2048x1390.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ALE-757-940x638.jpg 940w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ALE-757-620x421.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ALE-757-195x132.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26505\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The large plane that takes passengers from Punta Arenas, Chile to Union Glacier, Antarctica (Justin Merle)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_26506\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image000000.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[26504]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26506\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image000000-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image000000-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image000000-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image000000-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image000000-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image000000-940x705.jpg 940w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image000000-620x465.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image000000-195x146.jpg 195w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image000000.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26506\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 2022 IMG Vinson Team (Justin Merle)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dec 29, 2022 &#8211; IMG Chief Guide Justin Merle called this morning to report that the IMG Vinson team landed safely at Union Glacier. The conditions were windy in Punta Arenas, but the Boing 757 bound for Antarctica soon took off shuttling the team south. The team will wait at Union Glacier until weather allows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vinson-antarctica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26504","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=26504"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26511,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26504\/revisions\/26511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}