{"id":29727,"date":"2025-09-17T15:24:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T23:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=29727"},"modified":"2025-09-17T15:24:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T23:24:31","slug":"kilimanjaro-climbers-reach-machame-camp-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2025\/09\/17\/img-news\/kilimanjaro-climbers-reach-machame-camp-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Kilimanjaro Climbers Reach Machame Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 17, 2025<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29728\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Kili-team-at-the-Machame-Camp-Max-Bond.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[29727]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29728\" class=\"wp-image-29728 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Kili-team-at-the-Machame-Camp-Max-Bond-e1758151254351.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"810\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Kili-team-at-the-Machame-Camp-Max-Bond-e1758151254351.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Kili-team-at-the-Machame-Camp-Max-Bond-e1758151254351-284x300.jpg 284w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Kili-team-at-the-Machame-Camp-Max-Bond-e1758151254351-620x654.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Kili-team-at-the-Machame-Camp-Max-Bond-e1758151254351-185x195.jpg 185w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-29728\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kili team at the Machame Camp (Max Bond)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Max Bond reports the team had a great first day on the trail.\u00a0 They left the hotel on schedule in the minibus to Machame Gate, winding up through the coffee, tea and banana farms on the slopes of the mountain for about an hour.\u00a0 Then, at the Gate, they got checked in with the National Park and met their porters and camp crew.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29729\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Kili-climbers-and-monkees-in-the-forest-Max-Bond.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[29727]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29729\" class=\"wp-image-29729 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Kili-climbers-and-monkees-in-the-forest-Max-Bond.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Kili-climbers-and-monkees-in-the-forest-Max-Bond.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Kili-climbers-and-monkees-in-the-forest-Max-Bond-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Kili-climbers-and-monkees-in-the-forest-Max-Bond-146x195.jpg 146w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-29729\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kili climbers and monkeys in the forest (Max Bond)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Finally, after all that travel and duffel shuffling, it was time to start the climb!\u00a0 The day was spent predominantly in the forest, with some peekaboo views along the way (including monkeys in the trees!) as the team moved steadily higher.\u00a0 Machame Camp is at about 9300 feet, right at the treeline between the forest and the moorland zone. After a comfortable night at the camp they will enter the moorlands tomorrow, on their way to the Shira Plateau camp. All\u2019s well on Kilimanjaro!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 17, 2025 Max Bond reports the team had a great first day on the trail.\u00a0 They left the hotel on schedule in the minibus to Machame Gate, winding up through the coffee, tea and banana farms on the slopes of the mountain for about an hour.\u00a0 Then, at the Gate, they got checked in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":29728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29727","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\/29727","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=29727"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29735,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29727\/revisions\/29735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}