{"id":8634,"date":"2012-12-07T08:46:54","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T16:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=8634"},"modified":"2012-12-07T08:54:46","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T16:54:46","slug":"almost-off-the-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/07\/vinson-antarctica\/almost-off-the-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost Off The Ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December 7, 2012<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8635\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/The-edge-of-the-continent.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[8634]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8635\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8635\" title=\"The edge of the continent.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/The-edge-of-the-continent-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/The-edge-of-the-continent-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/The-edge-of-the-continent-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/The-edge-of-the-continent.jpg 1704w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8635\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The edge of the continent.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The IL 76 is in the air.\u00c2\u00a0 Tim and John will be in Punta in time for a late supper.\u00c2\u00a0 Mike and Vanessa will be staying, joining the ALE group to do the Last Degree.\u00c2\u00a0 They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll fly out to 89 degrees South and then ski the last 100 km to the Pole.\u00c2\u00a0 Takes about a week and the plane will pick them up at the Pole.\u00c2\u00a0 Pretty cool way to cap off a successful Vinson expedition.<\/p>\n<p>We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll post any new from Mike and Vanessa during their ski to the Pole so don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t go too far away.<\/p>\n<p>Read what Mike has to say about the Vinson climb in his new book \u00e2\u20ac\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Climbing-Seven-Summits-Mike-Hamill\/dp\/1594856486\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1354898482&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=mike+hamill\" target=\"_blank\"> \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Climbing the Seven Summits\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Published by Mountaineers Books, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a great read and a great resource.<\/p>\n<p>Greg Vernovage will be flying on Christmas day, meeting the next crew in Punta on December 27<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 7, 2012 The IL 76 is in the air.\u00c2\u00a0 Tim and John will be in Punta in time for a late supper.\u00c2\u00a0 Mike and Vanessa will be staying, joining the ALE group to do the Last Degree.\u00c2\u00a0 They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll fly out to 89 degrees South and then ski the last 100 km to the Pole.\u00c2\u00a0 [&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-8634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vinson-antarctica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8634","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=8634"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8637,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8634\/revisions\/8637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}