{"id":8764,"date":"2012-12-23T09:05:32","date_gmt":"2012-12-23T17:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=8764"},"modified":"2012-12-23T09:05:32","modified_gmt":"2012-12-23T17:05:32","slug":"kili-climbers-reach-shira-plateau-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/23\/kilimanjaro\/kili-climbers-reach-shira-plateau-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Kili Climbers Reach Shira Plateau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December 23, 2012<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8765\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DCP_0840.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[8764]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8765\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8765\" title=\"Looking west from Shira Camp towards Arusha and Mt. Meru (14,977 ft \/ 4,565 m) in the distance (photo: Eric Simonson)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DCP_0840-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DCP_0840-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DCP_0840-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8765\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking west from Shira Camp towards Arusha and Mt. Meru (14,977 ft \/ 4,565 m) in the distance (photo: Eric Simonson)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ang Jangbu Sherpa called to report that the team had a good day moving up to Shira Plateau camp, at about 12,500.\u00c2\u00a0 Now they are above the forest line, moving into the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153zone of weird plants\u00e2\u20ac\u009d that grow at high altitudes near the Equator\u00c2\u00a0 (Kili is about 3 degrees south latitude).\u00c2\u00a0 Sounds like the team had a little rain during the day but it cleared up in the afternoon and was quite nice.\u00c2\u00a0 Everyone is climbing well and acclimatizing normally, so far so good!<\/p>\n<p>Eric Simonson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 23, 2012 Ang Jangbu Sherpa called to report that the team had a good day moving up to Shira Plateau camp, at about 12,500.\u00c2\u00a0 Now they are above the forest line, moving into the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153zone of weird plants\u00e2\u20ac\u009d that grow at high altitudes near the Equator\u00c2\u00a0 (Kili is about 3 degrees south latitude).\u00c2\u00a0 Sounds [&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-8764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kilimanjaro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8764","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=8764"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8767,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8764\/revisions\/8767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}