{"id":3910,"date":"2011-07-11T10:09:32","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T18:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=3910"},"modified":"2011-07-11T10:17:09","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T18:17:09","slug":"3910","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/11\/carstensz-pyramid\/3910\/","title":{"rendered":"Carstensz Team Getting A Little Wet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 11, 2011<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3911\" style=\"width: 203px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/the-view-of-Carstensz-across-the-Plateau-credit-Jim-Walkley.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"lightbox[3910]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3911\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3911 \" title=\"The view of Carstensz across the Plateau. (Photo by Jim Walkley)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/the-view-of-Carstensz-across-the-Plateau-credit-Jim-Walkley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/the-view-of-Carstensz-across-the-Plateau-credit-Jim-Walkley.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/the-view-of-Carstensz-across-the-Plateau-credit-Jim-Walkley-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3911\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The view of Carstensz across the Plateau. (Photo by Jim Walkley)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Jason  Edwards reports that the team has been making good progress across the Plateau,  which averages around 12,000 feet.\u00c2\u00a0 The temps have dropped to below freezing at  night, and the porters prefer to sleep in caves and build big fires when they  can, rather than sleep in tents!<\/p>\n<p>There is a lot of water on the limestone Karst  plateau, with many stream crossings and marshy areas.\u00c2\u00a0 The clear skies of the  first few days have been replaced by \u00e2\u20ac\u0153normal\u00e2\u20ac\u009d weather (some rain).<\/p>\n<p>So far  everyone is hanging in there, and looking forward to reaching Base  Camp!<\/p>\n<p>Eric Simonson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 11, 2011 Jason Edwards reports that the team has been making good progress across the Plateau, which averages around 12,000 feet.\u00c2\u00a0 The temps have dropped to below freezing at night, and the porters prefer to sleep in caves and build big fires when they can, rather than sleep in tents! There is a lot [&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-3910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carstensz-pyramid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910","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=3910"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3921,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910\/revisions\/3921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}