{"id":4821,"date":"2011-10-03T06:54:50","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T14:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=4821"},"modified":"2011-10-03T06:54:50","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T14:54:50","slug":"kili-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/03\/kilimanjaro\/kili-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Kili Summit!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 3rd, 2011<\/p>\n<p>Fourteen hours after leaving high camp and it&#8217;s all done.\u00c2\u00a0 Great weather, great climb, great summit and even better descent.\u00c2\u00a0 You can&#8217;t believe how much thicker the air is at 10,000 ft. when compared to what you&#8217;re breathing at 19,340 ft.\u00c2\u00a0 World of difference and so much warmer, too.\u00c2\u00a0 A beer or two, a nice meal and it&#8217;s pretty much &#8216;the sleep of the dead&#8217;.\u00c2\u00a0 After awakening, it&#8217;s just a few short downhill hours through lush rainforest to arrive at the Park entrance at the Mweka Gate.\u00c2\u00a0 For now, all the stress of the summit day is gone and sleep is in order.\u00c2\u00a0 Congratulations, team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>~Phil Ershler<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4822\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Adam_Angel_2010_6_Kilimanjaro_0754.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"lightbox[4821]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4822\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4822 \" title=\"Pole Pole (slowly slowly) around the crater rim to Uhuru Point, The Roof of Africa.  (Photo by Adam Angel)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Adam_Angel_2010_6_Kilimanjaro_0754.jpg\" alt=\"Pole Pole (slowly slowly) around the crater rim to Uhuru Point, The Roof of Africa.  (Photo by Adam Angel)\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4822\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pole Pole (slowly slowly) around the crater rim to Uhuru Point, The Roof of Africa. (Photo by Adam Angel)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 3rd, 2011 Fourteen hours after leaving high camp and it&#8217;s all done.\u00c2\u00a0 Great weather, great climb, great summit and even better descent.\u00c2\u00a0 You can&#8217;t believe how much thicker the air is at 10,000 ft. when compared to what you&#8217;re breathing at 19,340 ft.\u00c2\u00a0 World of difference and so much warmer, too.\u00c2\u00a0 A beer or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kilimanjaro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4821","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=4821"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4824,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4821\/revisions\/4824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}