{"id":3898,"date":"2011-07-10T11:26:39","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T19:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=3898"},"modified":"2011-07-11T09:48:30","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T17:48:30","slug":"carstensz-climbers-reach-plateau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/10\/carstensz-pyramid\/carstensz-climbers-reach-plateau\/","title":{"rendered":"Carstensz Climbers Reach Plateau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 10, 2011<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3906\" style=\"width: 205px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Carstensz_Larson_Lake.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[3898]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3906\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3906\" title=\"Carstensz_Larson_Lake\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Carstensz_Larson_Lake.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Carstensz_Larson_Lake.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Carstensz_Larson_Lake-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3906\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Larson Lake. (Photo by Jim Walkley)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Jason  Edwards reports by sat phone that the team is doing well after surviving several  very difficult and rugged days of traversing, river crossings, rock slabs, logs,  and mud as they trekked through the forest.<\/p>\n<p>Now, they have climbed to  over 12,000 feet up onto the plateau, a welcome change!\u00c2\u00a0 The plateau is like  going to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Jurassic Park\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, complete with grassy moorlands, giant fern trees,  highland marsh, and strange rock formations.<\/p>\n<p>Last night the team  camped near Larson Lake and tomorrow they climb up and over New Zealand Pass  (nearly 15,000 ft), where they will hopefully get their first good views of  Carstensz.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Simonson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 10, 2011 Jason Edwards reports by sat phone that the team is doing well after surviving several very difficult and rugged days of traversing, river crossings, rock slabs, logs, and mud as they trekked through the forest. Now, they have climbed to over 12,000 feet up onto the plateau, a welcome change!\u00c2\u00a0 The plateau [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carstensz-pyramid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3898","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=3898"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3903,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3898\/revisions\/3903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}