{"id":27498,"date":"2023-12-19T13:49:41","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T21:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=27498"},"modified":"2023-12-19T13:49:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T21:49:41","slug":"vinson-climbers-reach-low-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2023\/12\/19\/vinson-antarctica\/vinson-climbers-reach-low-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinson climbers reach Low Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December 10th, 2023&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Below-the-Low-Camp-looking-down-Branscomb-Glacier-_Porter-McMichael.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[27498]\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27488\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Below-the-Low-Camp-looking-down-Branscomb-Glacier-_Porter-McMichael.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>IMG lead guide Porter McMichael let us know that the team had a smooth trip up to the \u201cLow Camp\u201d area (9100 ft) where they are now dug into a Denali style camp.\u00a0 They hauled sleds with them on this move, ascending the Branscomb Glacier which turns to the left up onto a shelf below the mountain.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_27500\" style=\"width: 1096px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Looking-down-the-Branscomb-Glacier-towards-VBC-Porter-McMichael-1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[27498]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27500\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Looking-down-the-Branscomb-Glacier-towards-VBC-Porter-McMichael-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1086\" height=\"818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Looking-down-the-Branscomb-Glacier-towards-VBC-Porter-McMichael-1.jpg 1086w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Looking-down-the-Branscomb-Glacier-towards-VBC-Porter-McMichael-1-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Looking-down-the-Branscomb-Glacier-towards-VBC-Porter-McMichael-1-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Looking-down-the-Branscomb-Glacier-towards-VBC-Porter-McMichael-1-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Looking-down-the-Branscomb-Glacier-towards-VBC-Porter-McMichael-1-940x708.jpg 940w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Looking-down-the-Branscomb-Glacier-towards-VBC-Porter-McMichael-1-620x467.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Looking-down-the-Branscomb-Glacier-towards-VBC-Porter-McMichael-1-195x147.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1086px) 100vw, 1086px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-27500\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking down the Branscomb Glacier towards VBC (Porter McMichael)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>They are taking a rest day currently and then it\u2019s just a waiting game to pick the best weather window for the move up to the \u201cHigh Camp\u201d (12400 ft).\u00a0 We\u2019ll keep you posted!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_27490\" style=\"width: 4042px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/View-down-the-Branscomb-Glacier-below-Low-Camp-Porter-McMichael.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[27498]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27490\" class=\"wp-image-27490 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/View-down-the-Branscomb-Glacier-below-Low-Camp-Porter-McMichael.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-27490\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View down the Branscomb Glacier below Low Camp (Porter McMichael)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 10th, 2023&#8211; IMG lead guide Porter McMichael let us know that the team had a smooth trip up to the \u201cLow Camp\u201d area (9100 ft) where they are now dug into a Denali style camp.\u00a0 They hauled sleds with them on this move, ascending the Branscomb Glacier which turns to the left up onto [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27498","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\/27498","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=27498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27501,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27498\/revisions\/27501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}