{"id":6058,"date":"2012-02-07T09:50:30","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T17:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=6058"},"modified":"2012-02-07T09:50:30","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T17:50:30","slug":"kili-team-on-safari-craig-john-celebrates-20-successful-ascents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/07\/kilimanjaro\/kili-team-on-safari-craig-john-celebrates-20-successful-ascents\/","title":{"rendered":"Kili team on safari; Craig John celebrates 20 successful ascents"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.MountainGuides.com\/photos\/guides\/craig-john.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[6058]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/www.MountainGuides.com\/photos\/guides\/craig-john.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"149\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Long Time IMG Guide, Craig John<\/p><\/div>\n<p>February 7, 2012<\/p>\n<p>Craig John called on the sat phone to report that the team is having a great time on their safari.\u00c2\u00a0 Today they saw five leopards and a rhino in the Serengeti, which is quite unusual.\u00c2\u00a0 The team has also been enjoying our luxury safari camp \u00e2\u20ac\u0153in the bush\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.\u00c2\u00a0 This morning Craig said he had a hyena outside his tent!\u00c2\u00a0 Among the evening toasts made by the team has been for Craig\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 20th successful Kilimanjaro climb (out of 20 attempts).\u00c2\u00a0 Way to go Craig!\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I remember the Craig\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very first Kili trip, as my assistant guide, many moons ago.\u00c2\u00a0 Since then, Craig has been to the top of Africa in a variety of months, with many people, in many different weather conditions.\u00c2\u00a0 He will be the first to tell you that every trip is different, and Kilimanjaro always seems to deliver some sort of surprise along the way.\u00c2\u00a0 Tomorrow the team is off to Ngorongoro Crater via Olduvai Gorge, for their final day\/night on safari, before heading back to civilization.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Simonson<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6069\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/adamangelrhino.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[6058]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6069\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6069 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/adamangelrhino.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6069\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rhino. (Photo by Adam Angel)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_6068\" style=\"width: 211px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/adamangelcheetah1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[6058]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6068\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6068 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/adamangelcheetah1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6068\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cheetah on Serengeti (Photo by Adam Angel)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 7, 2012 Craig John called on the sat phone to report that the team is having a great time on their safari.\u00c2\u00a0 Today they saw five leopards and a rhino in the Serengeti, which is quite unusual.\u00c2\u00a0 The team has also been enjoying our luxury safari camp \u00e2\u20ac\u0153in the bush\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.\u00c2\u00a0 This morning Craig said [&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-6058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kilimanjaro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6058","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=6058"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6073,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6058\/revisions\/6073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}