{"id":29828,"date":"2025-11-12T15:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T23:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=29828"},"modified":"2025-11-12T15:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T23:46:07","slug":"ecuador-team-wraps-it-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2025\/11\/12\/img-news\/ecuador-team-wraps-it-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecuador Team Wraps It Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November 12, 2025<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29829\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000021262.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[29828]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29829\" class=\"size-large wp-image-29829\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000021262-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000021262-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000021262-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000021262-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000021262-940x705.jpg 940w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000021262-620x465.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000021262-195x146.jpg 195w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000021262.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-29829\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Team dinner, wearing their alpaca wool ponchos (Romulo Cardenas)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Team members not continuing on the optional climb of Chimborazo parted ways from the rest of the group after a &#8220;goodbye&#8221; dinner on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Early this morning the Chimborazo climbers reached 5800 meters (just over 19,000 ft), then turned around due to poor weather conditions on the mountain.\u00a0 The weather is not projected to improve in the next few days, so the decision was made to head back to Quito.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-29828 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000021941.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[29828]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000021941-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-29830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000021941-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000021941-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000021941-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000021941-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-29830'>\n\t\t\t\tClimbers approach shelter (Romulo Cardenas)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000021944-1.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[29828]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000021944-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-29832\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000021944-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000021944-1-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000021944-1-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000021944-1-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-29832'>\n\t\t\t\tEarly morning steps on Chimborazo (Romulo Cardenas)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000021947.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[29828]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000021947-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-29833\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000021947-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000021947-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000021947-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000021947-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-29833'>\n\t\t\t\tOne step at a time (Romulo Cardenas)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Everyone is safe and well, back in Quito and enjoying some well deserved rest.\u00a0 Well done, team!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 12, 2025 Team members not continuing on the optional climb of Chimborazo parted ways from the rest of the group after a &#8220;goodbye&#8221; 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