{"id":4460,"date":"2011-10-12T07:40:27","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T15:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/?p=4460"},"modified":"2011-10-12T07:40:27","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T15:40:27","slug":"winter-ascent-of-everson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/winter-ascent-of-everson\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Ascent of Everson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSCN9137.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSCN9137.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DSCN9137\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4461 colorbox-4460\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This morning I courageously left my daypack behind in favour of an alpine ascent of the buildings at KEP &#8211; some of the icy slopes to the ridge line were over 2000mm. I had to front point in my rigger boots and armed with my mop and squeegy I was able to quickly climb up the slippery face. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSCN9139.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSCN9139.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DSCN9139\" width=\"336\" height=\"448\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4462 colorbox-4460\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had to overcome a rather scary looking elephant seal to get to the 100 + windows on base and remove a years worth of dirt.  Without my trusty waterproof fleece lined gloves I would surely have succombed to frostbite. I staved off acute mountain sickness by stopping for a brief half hour gulping down a mug of Ribena. Luckily a bucket of vinegar and water made quick work of the windows and I still had some strength to eat a delicous wrap of chicken and salad for lunch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSCN9141.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSCN9141.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DSCN9141\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4463 colorbox-4460\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe Hans Hansen the new vessel owned by Dion Poncet arrived today at KEP. There are only three expedition yachts coming this season including this vessel which looks to me a bit like Little Toot. Remember that cartoon? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I courageously left my daypack behind in favour of an alpine ascent of the buildings at KEP &#8211; some of the icy slopes to the ridge line were over 2000mm. I had to front point in my rigger boots and armed with my mop and squeegy I was able to quickly climb up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-georgia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4464,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460\/revisions\/4464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}