{"id":5340,"date":"2011-11-21T09:47:07","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T17:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=5340"},"modified":"2011-11-21T09:47:07","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T17:47:07","slug":"vinson-team-off-and-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/21\/vinson-antarctica\/vinson-team-off-and-running\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinson Team Off And Running"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November 20, 2011<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5341\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0041.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[5340]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5341\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5341\" title=\"IL 76 on the Ice in Antarctica (Photo: Phil Ershler)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0041-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0041-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0041-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5341\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">IL 76 on the Ice in Antarctica (Photo: Phil Ershler)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Bad news is that the team was delayed 3 days before they were able to fly onto the Ice.\u00c2\u00a0 Good news is that they made it in Saturday evening and that the delay won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t affect their climb.\u00c2\u00a0 They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re off and running!!<\/p>\n<p>IMG guides, Mike Hamill and Chris Meder and our team of 7 climbers were excited to board the IL 76 and get strapped in for the 4 hour flight to the Union Glacier at close to 80 degrees south latitude.\u00c2\u00a0 The next flight leg is about an hour hop in a Twin Otter to get to Vinson base camp on the Branscomb Glacier at about 7000 ft.\u00c2\u00a0 Mike will call once they arrive, get camp established and are settled in.<\/p>\n<p>With some expeditions, getting there is the toughest part.\u00c2\u00a0 Not that climbing Vinson is easy but we have some control over how that goes.\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the flying that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s always the question mark.\u00c2\u00a0 Weather, visibility, snow conditions on the runway \u00e2\u20ac\u201c all have to align to make a safe flight possible.\u00c2\u00a0 Now, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s up to the team.\u00c2\u00a0 Still need a bit of help with the weather from mother nature but now it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s game time.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 20, 2011 Bad news is that the team was delayed 3 days before they were able to fly onto the Ice.\u00c2\u00a0 Good news is that they made it in Saturday evening and that the delay won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t affect their climb.\u00c2\u00a0 They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re off and running!! IMG guides, Mike Hamill and Chris Meder and our team of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vinson-antarctica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5340","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=5340"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5344,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5340\/revisions\/5344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}