{"id":27508,"date":"2023-12-19T13:53:21","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T21:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=27508"},"modified":"2023-12-19T13:53:21","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T21:53:21","slug":"vinson-climbers-return-to-base-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2023\/12\/19\/vinson-antarctica\/vinson-climbers-return-to-base-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinson climbers return to Base Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December 14th, 2023&#8211;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_27509\" style=\"width: 959px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Vinson-Base-Camp-1.png\" rel=\"lightbox[27508]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27509\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27509\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Vinson-Base-Camp-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"949\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Vinson-Base-Camp-1.png 949w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Vinson-Base-Camp-1-300x226.png 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Vinson-Base-Camp-1-768x578.png 768w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Vinson-Base-Camp-1-940x707.png 940w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Vinson-Base-Camp-1-620x466.png 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Vinson-Base-Camp-1-195x147.png 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 949px) 100vw, 949px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-27509\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vinson Basecamp (Eric Simonson)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>IMG lead guide Porter McMichael reported that the team has safely descended from High Camp back to Vinson Base Camp.\u00a0 Everyone is doing well, tired and happy!\u00a0 It sounds like the summit day was clear and very cold, with air temps about -38C\u00a0 (recall that the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales cross at -40 so the temp was basically the same using either scale!).\u00a0 On the summit they had no wind, so it was perfect, but down lower they encountered 10mph winds that made for a bitter wind chill (estimated at minus 66 F). \u00a0That\u2019s why climbers bring all that warm gear!<\/p>\n<p>They are now waiting to fly back over to Union Glacier Camp.\u00a0 Their flight from Union Glacier back to Punta Arenas is scheduled for December 18.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Simonson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 14th, 2023&#8211; IMG lead guide Porter McMichael reported that the team has safely descended from High Camp back to Vinson Base Camp.\u00a0 Everyone is doing well, tired and happy!\u00a0 It sounds like the summit day was clear and very cold, with air temps about -38C\u00a0 (recall that the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales cross at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27508","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\/27508","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=27508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27510,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27508\/revisions\/27510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}