{"id":28907,"date":"2025-01-01T12:17:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T20:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=28907"},"modified":"2025-01-01T12:17:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T20:17:19","slug":"vinson-climbers-on-the-way-to-the-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2025\/01\/01\/img-news\/vinson-climbers-on-the-way-to-the-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinson Climbers On The Way To The Ice!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January 1, 2025<\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year!\u00a0 The weather cleared and the Vinson climbers are on the way!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_28908\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Waiting-for-the-flight-to-The-Ice-Max-Bond-scaled.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[28907]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28908\" class=\"size-large wp-image-28908\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Waiting-for-the-flight-to-The-Ice-Max-Bond-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Waiting-for-the-flight-to-The-Ice-Max-Bond-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Waiting-for-the-flight-to-The-Ice-Max-Bond-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Waiting-for-the-flight-to-The-Ice-Max-Bond-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Waiting-for-the-flight-to-The-Ice-Max-Bond-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Waiting-for-the-flight-to-The-Ice-Max-Bond-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Waiting-for-the-flight-to-The-Ice-Max-Bond-940x705.jpg 940w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Waiting-for-the-flight-to-The-Ice-Max-Bond-620x465.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Waiting-for-the-flight-to-The-Ice-Max-Bond-195x146.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-28908\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Waiting for the flight to The Ice (Max Bond)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The flight in the 757 takes about 4.5 hours to Union Glacier, where they will land with rubber tires on a blue ice runway.\u00a0 Then, with any luck, they will change planes to the Twin Otter on skis, for the flight over to Vinson Base Camp on the Branscomb Glacier.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_28909\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Boarding-the-flight-to-The-Ice-Max-Bond-scaled.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[28907]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28909\" class=\"size-large wp-image-28909\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Boarding-the-flight-to-The-Ice-Max-Bond-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Boarding-the-flight-to-The-Ice-Max-Bond-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Boarding-the-flight-to-The-Ice-Max-Bond-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Boarding-the-flight-to-The-Ice-Max-Bond-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Boarding-the-flight-to-The-Ice-Max-Bond-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Boarding-the-flight-to-The-Ice-Max-Bond-940x1253.jpg 940w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Boarding-the-flight-to-The-Ice-Max-Bond-620x827.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Boarding-the-flight-to-The-Ice-Max-Bond-146x195.jpg 146w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Boarding-the-flight-to-The-Ice-Max-Bond-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-28909\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boarding the flight to The Ice (Max Bond)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So far so good!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 1, 2025 Happy New Year!\u00a0 The weather cleared and the Vinson climbers are on the way! The flight in the 757 takes about 4.5 hours to Union Glacier, where they will land with rubber tires on a blue ice runway.\u00a0 Then, with any luck, they will change planes to the Twin Otter on skis, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":28908,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-img-news","category-vinson-antarctica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28907","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28907"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28911,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28907\/revisions\/28911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}