{"id":5711,"date":"2012-01-07T16:11:40","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T00:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=5711"},"modified":"2012-01-07T16:11:40","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T00:11:40","slug":"a-little-r-r-on-the-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/07\/vinson-antarctica\/a-little-r-r-on-the-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little R &#038; R On The Ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January 7, 2012<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5713\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_0138.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[5711]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5713\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-5713\" title=\"Antarctica from above (Photo: Phil Ershler)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_0138-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5713\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antarctica from above (Photo: Phil Ershler)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Just a quick note to let everyone following Greg Vernovage and team that they were able to get down to Vinson base camp the day following their summit.\u00c2\u00a0 And, as luck would have it, they were on a Twin Otter that same afternoon and on their way to the Union Glacier.\u00c2\u00a0 Union Glacier is where the IL 76 lands to bring folks to and take people off the Ice.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a huge step.\u00c2\u00a0 Now, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s simply a matter of relaxing, eating and drinking until the IL arrives.\u00c2\u00a0 That probably happens about the 12<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00c2\u00a0 No sweat \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Union Glacier camp is about as good as it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to get at 80 degrees south latitude.<\/p>\n<p>Another great season on the Ice is complete.\u00c2\u00a0 100% period.\u00c2\u00a0 All climbers and all guides on the summit and not a scratch.\u00c2\u00a0 We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll take it.\u00c2\u00a0 Congratulations, team.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 7, 2012 Just a quick note to let everyone following Greg Vernovage and team that they were able to get down to Vinson base camp the day following their summit.\u00c2\u00a0 And, as luck would have it, they were on a Twin Otter that same afternoon and on their way to the Union Glacier.\u00c2\u00a0 Union [&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-5711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vinson-antarctica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5711","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=5711"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5717,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5711\/revisions\/5717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}