{"id":9970,"date":"2013-07-10T09:35:20","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T17:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=9970"},"modified":"2013-07-10T09:35:20","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T17:35:20","slug":"kili-team-up-to-14500ft-sleeping-at-13000ft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2013\/07\/10\/kilimanjaro\/kili-team-up-to-14500ft-sleeping-at-13000ft\/","title":{"rendered":"Kili Team Up to 14,500ft.; Sleeping At 13,000ft."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 10, 2013<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9971\" style=\"width: 513px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Climbing-the-steep-place-on-the-Barranco-Wall-Eben-Reckord.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[9970]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9971\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9971\" title=\"Climbing the Barranco Wall (Eben Reckord)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Climbing-the-steep-place-on-the-Barranco-Wall-Eben-Reckord.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"503\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Climbing-the-steep-place-on-the-Barranco-Wall-Eben-Reckord.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Climbing-the-steep-place-on-the-Barranco-Wall-Eben-Reckord-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9971\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Climbing the Barranco Wall (Eben Reckord)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Short and to the point sat phone call from Sheldon today.\u00c2\u00a0 The team completed their climb up to 14,500\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and then headed down to the Baranco Camp at 13K.\u00c2\u00a0 Weather good, everyone feeling well so no issues.\u00c2\u00a0 That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all we needed to hear.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow is Karanga Camp.\u00c2\u00a0 The morning starts off with the Baranco Wall. \u00c2\u00a0It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a 2 hour hike\/scramble up good rock with sensational views.\u00c2\u00a0 Looks intimidating from camp but only fun once people are on it.\u00c2\u00a0 Karanga Camp is close to 13K feet, too.\u00c2\u00a0 Some folks skip this camp and head straight to high camp at Barafu.\u00c2\u00a0 Why do that?\u00c2\u00a0 Adding an extra day gives our teams an extra day of acclimatization, breaks up an otherwise long day and allows us to arrive at high camp quite early in the day and not be unduly tired.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d call tomorrow \u00e2\u20ac\u02dchump day\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 as far as the climb\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s concerned.\u00c2\u00a0 Once they reach Karanga, attention will be focused on that summit and no longer on the approach.\u00c2\u00a0 So far, so good.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 10, 2013 Short and to the point sat phone call from Sheldon today.\u00c2\u00a0 The team completed their climb up to 14,500\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and then headed down to the Baranco Camp at 13K.\u00c2\u00a0 Weather good, everyone feeling well so no issues.\u00c2\u00a0 That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all we needed to hear. Tomorrow is Karanga Camp.\u00c2\u00a0 The morning starts off with [&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-9970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kilimanjaro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9970","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=9970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9972,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9970\/revisions\/9972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}