{"id":26926,"date":"2023-06-22T07:28:58","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T15:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=26926"},"modified":"2023-06-22T07:28:58","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T15:28:58","slug":"kilimanjaro-climbers-making-good-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2023\/06\/22\/img-news\/kilimanjaro-climbers-making-good-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Kilimanjaro climbers making good progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 22, 2023<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_26928\" style=\"width: 2570px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Kili-climbers-take-a-break-on-the-way-to-Shira-Plateau-resized-Phunuru-Sherpa-scaled.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[26926]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26928\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26928\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Kili-climbers-take-a-break-on-the-way-to-Shira-Plateau-resized-Phunuru-Sherpa-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Kili-climbers-take-a-break-on-the-way-to-Shira-Plateau-resized-Phunuru-Sherpa-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Kili-climbers-take-a-break-on-the-way-to-Shira-Plateau-resized-Phunuru-Sherpa-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Kili-climbers-take-a-break-on-the-way-to-Shira-Plateau-resized-Phunuru-Sherpa-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Kili-climbers-take-a-break-on-the-way-to-Shira-Plateau-resized-Phunuru-Sherpa-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Kili-climbers-take-a-break-on-the-way-to-Shira-Plateau-resized-Phunuru-Sherpa-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Kili-climbers-take-a-break-on-the-way-to-Shira-Plateau-resized-Phunuru-Sherpa-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Kili-climbers-take-a-break-on-the-way-to-Shira-Plateau-resized-Phunuru-Sherpa-940x705.jpg 940w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Kili-climbers-take-a-break-on-the-way-to-Shira-Plateau-resized-Phunuru-Sherpa-620x465.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Kili-climbers-take-a-break-on-the-way-to-Shira-Plateau-resized-Phunuru-Sherpa-195x146.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26928\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">IMG Kili climbers take a break on their way to Shira Plateau<\/p><\/div>\n<p>IMG\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s indefatigable Phunuru Sherpa reports that the June Kilimanjaro team members are all doing well.\u00c2\u00a0 The weather has been excellent, despite some clouds (but no rain) down low.\u00c2\u00a0 Yesterday the team trekked up through the forest to the Machame Camp at treeline.\u00c2\u00a0 After a pleasant night there, today they emerged from the forest and climbed up to the Shira Plateau camp (about 12,500 ft). Now they are well into the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153zone of weird plants\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with the strange high altitude equatorial species like the groundsel and lobelia in abundance. \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0From the Shira Plateau there are great views of Kilimanjaro and also Mt Meru, near Arusha.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Tomorrow the team will head to the Barranco Camp.\u00c2\u00a0 So far so good!<\/p>\n<p>Eric Simonson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 22, 2023 IMG\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s indefatigable Phunuru Sherpa reports that the June Kilimanjaro team members are all doing well.\u00c2\u00a0 The weather has been excellent, despite some clouds (but no rain) down low.\u00c2\u00a0 Yesterday the team trekked up through the forest to the Machame Camp at treeline.\u00c2\u00a0 After a pleasant night there, today they emerged from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-img-news","category-kilimanjaro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26926","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=26926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26929,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26926\/revisions\/26929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}