{"id":8020,"date":"2012-09-17T08:26:59","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T16:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=8020"},"modified":"2012-09-17T08:26:59","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T16:26:59","slug":"from-the-top-of-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2012\/09\/17\/kilimanjaro\/from-the-top-of-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"From The Top Of Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 16, 2012<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8021\" style=\"width: 509px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Sunrise-Ken-Maclaurin.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[8020]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8021\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8021\" title=\"Watching the sunrise. (Ken Maclaurin)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Sunrise-Ken-Maclaurin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Sunrise-Ken-Maclaurin.jpg 750w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Sunrise-Ken-Maclaurin-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8021\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Watching the sunrise. (Ken Maclaurin)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Good news last evening (Seattle time) from Africa.\u00c2\u00a0 IMG Senior Guide, Chris Meder, called me from the top of Africa.\u00c2\u00a0 The group was standing on the summit!\u00c2\u00a0 Obviously, great news.\u00c2\u00a0 Summit day on Kilimanjaro is tough.\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an early morning start and a long, steady pull to the crater.\u00c2\u00a0 It takes guts and determination to make it happen.\u00c2\u00a0 Our congratulations to the crew.\u00c2\u00a0 With luck, we should hear from the gang once they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re down to Mweka Camp.\u00c2\u00a0 They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll return to high camp at Barafu, eat, pack and have a short rest, before heading to 10,000 ft and Mweka Camp.\u00c2\u00a0 Not easy but absolutely the right thing to do.\u00c2\u00a0 Get down the land of thicker air.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 16, 2012 Good news last evening (Seattle time) from Africa.\u00c2\u00a0 IMG Senior Guide, Chris Meder, called me from the top of Africa.\u00c2\u00a0 The group was standing on the summit!\u00c2\u00a0 Obviously, great news.\u00c2\u00a0 Summit day on Kilimanjaro is tough.\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an early morning start and a long, steady pull to the crater.\u00c2\u00a0 It takes guts [&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-8020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kilimanjaro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8020","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=8020"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8023,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8020\/revisions\/8023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}