{"id":7362,"date":"2012-07-08T20:26:07","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T04:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=7362"},"modified":"2012-07-08T20:26:07","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T04:26:07","slug":"carstensz-climbers-reach-the-plateau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/08\/carstensz-pyramid\/carstensz-climbers-reach-the-plateau\/","title":{"rendered":"Carstensz Climbers Reach The Plateau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 8, 2012<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-7362 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Setting-up-the-cook-tent-Jason-Edwards.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[7362]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Setting-up-the-cook-tent-Jason-Edwards-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-7364\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-7364'>\n\t\t\t\tSetting up the cook tent (Jason Edwards)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Climbing-out-of-the-forest-towards-the-Plateau-Jason-Edwards.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[7362]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Climbing-out-of-the-forest-towards-the-Plateau-Jason-Edwards-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-7363\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-7363'>\n\t\t\t\tClimbing out of the forest towards the Plateau (Jason Edwards)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>IMG guide Dan Zokaites reports by sat phone that the team completed their third day in the forest, and that it was the toughest yet.\u00c2\u00a0 They did 7.7 miles on the map in 9 hours of hiking, with 5000 ft gained and 2000 ft lost!\u00c2\u00a0 At the end of the day they broke out of the forest and climbed onto the Plateau.\u00c2\u00a0 Now that they are out of the forest the walking will get better, though it is still quite challenging terrain.\u00c2\u00a0 The weather has been good, with no rain today.\u00c2\u00a0 The Plateau is representative of karst topography, with many sink holes, caverns, and small streams along the way. \u00c2\u00a0The local porters are doing a great job the team is looking forward to their first views of the Sudirman Range and Mt. Carstensz.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Simonson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 8, 2012 IMG guide Dan Zokaites reports by sat phone that the team completed their third day in the forest, and that it was the toughest yet.\u00c2\u00a0 They did 7.7 miles on the map in 9 hours of hiking, with 5000 ft gained and 2000 ft lost!\u00c2\u00a0 At the end of the day they [&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-7362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carstensz-pyramid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7362","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=7362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7365,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7362\/revisions\/7365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}