{"id":25634,"date":"2018-06-16T23:22:31","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T03:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=25634"},"modified":"2018-06-16T23:22:31","modified_gmt":"2018-06-17T03:22:31","slug":"june-17-2018-day-1-hike-silent-hike-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=25634","title":{"rendered":"June 17, 2018: Day 1 &#8211; Hike Silent, Hike High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I suspect there won\u2019t be great WiFi heading up Kilimanjaro&#8230; despite the fact that apparently 80,000 people a year make the attempt to climb. Somebody at the briefing said there was a 23% success rate of getting to the summit, but our guides Antipas and Jooma cherry picked around that question to say they\u2019d never had anyone die in their 10+ years of taking people up the mountain. Safety is first; summiting is second. I can get behind that.<\/p>\n<p>Point is, there won\u2019t be any posts for several days. I\u2019m going radio silent by necessity&#8230; though as we get higher, especially after crossing the tree line, shouldn\u2019t I get better signals with unobstructed views? Isn\u2019t that how it works?<\/p>\n<p>I joke because I\u2019m terrified. The guides said besides the cold and the incline it\u2019s really not that hard &#8211; it\u2019s more a mental thing. Believe you will succeed and you can do anything &#8230; or some such. I believe I may have made a huge mistake and am incredibly, incompetently, entirely ill-prepared.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s five days. Let\u2019s see what\u2019s out there.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>The climb begins in&#8230; 3&#8230; 2&#8230; 1&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&lt;&lt;&lt; SIGNAL LOSS &gt;&gt;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suspect there won\u2019t be great WiFi heading up Kilimanjaro&#8230; despite the fact that apparently 80,000 people a year make the attempt to climb. Somebody at the briefing said there was a 23% success rate of getting to the summit, but our guides Antipas and Jooma cherry picked around that question to say they\u2019d never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}