{"id":9350,"date":"2013-02-13T13:40:41","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T21:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=9350"},"modified":"2013-02-13T13:40:41","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T21:40:41","slug":"and-thats-a-wrap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2013\/02\/13\/aconcagua\/and-thats-a-wrap\/","title":{"rendered":"And That&#8217;s A Wrap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February 13, 2013<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9351\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Aconcagua-and-the-Polish-Glacier.blog-12.24.11-IMG_0254.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[9350]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9351\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-9351\" title=\"Aconcagua and the Polish Glacier (Phil Ershler)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Aconcagua-and-the-Polish-Glacier.blog-12.24.11-IMG_0254-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9351\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aconcagua and the Polish Glacier (Phil Ershler)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mike, Josh, Leandro and team, all their gear and all fingers and toes are now back in Mendoza.\u00c2\u00a0 Lots to sort and organize and pack away today but lots of time for more meals and naps, too.\u00c2\u00a0 Big dinner tonight and flights home for most of the crew tomorrow.\u00c2\u00a0 Safe, successful, enjoyable and a great learning experience \u00e2\u20ac\u201c that pretty much wraps up the Big Four of an IMG expedition.\u00c2\u00a0 From Mike to our most junior arriero (mule driver) they all deserve a huge congratulations.\u00c2\u00a0 IMG probably emphasizes this more than any other guide service but Aconcagua is no trek.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a serious undertaking and should be tackled only by climbers who are fit and prepared to work as part of a team.\u00c2\u00a0 IMG climbers <em>climb<\/em> Aconcagua.\u00c2\u00a0 No one is waiting on them, putting up their tents and carrying all their gear.\u00c2\u00a0 Our team members are active participants who come with IMG because they want to climb.\u00c2\u00a0 Pretty cool.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Mike\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s team.\u00c2\u00a0 That wraps up our 2012\/13 season.\u00c2\u00a0 Seven expeditions in all.\u00c2\u00a0 Five groups reached the top; weather said no to the other two.\u00c2\u00a0 But no accidents and no close calls.\u00c2\u00a0 We call that a very good season.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 13, 2013 Mike, Josh, Leandro and team, all their gear and all fingers and toes are now back in Mendoza.\u00c2\u00a0 Lots to sort and organize and pack away today but lots of time for more meals and naps, too.\u00c2\u00a0 Big dinner tonight and flights home for most of the crew tomorrow.\u00c2\u00a0 Safe, successful, enjoyable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aconcagua"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9350","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=9350"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9355,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9350\/revisions\/9355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}