{"id":1767,"date":"2010-01-21T14:56:46","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T14:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/?p=1767"},"modified":"2011-06-12T19:27:22","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T13:27:22","slug":"to-climbers-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/2010\/01\/21\/to-climbers-cemetery\/","title":{"rendered":"To Climber&#8217;s Cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/MG_8460.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1755\" title=\"_MG_8460\" src=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/MG_8460.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"427\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/MG_8460.jpg 427w, http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/MG_8460-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I got a few hours free on the weekend to hike up to the climber&#8217;s cemetery in Ala Archa National Park.  The cemetery was established in Soviet times for fallen climbers (most often, literally <em>fallen<\/em> climbers).  It is hidden away in a grove of larch trees &#8212; well enough hidden that I missed it the first time I hiked up the valley late last year.  The winter scenery was pretty spectacular.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/MG_8465.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1756\" title=\"_MG_8465\" src=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/MG_8465.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"427\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/MG_8465.jpg 427w, http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/MG_8465-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/MG_8468.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1757\" title=\"_MG_8468\" src=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/MG_8468.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"427\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/MG_8468.jpg 427w, http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/MG_8468-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1758\" style=\"width: 437px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/MG_8472.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1758\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1758\" title=\"_MG_8472\" src=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/MG_8472.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"427\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/MG_8472.jpg 427w, http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/MG_8472-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1758\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Cemetery<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/MG_8489.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1760\" title=\"_MG_8489\" src=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/MG_8489.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"427\" height=\"641\" srcset=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/MG_8489.jpg 427w, http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/MG_8489-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a few hours free on the weekend to hike up to the climber&#8217;s cemetery in Ala Archa National Park. The cemetery was established in Soviet times for fallen climbers (most often, literally fallen climbers). It is hidden away in a grove of larch trees &#8212; well enough hidden that I missed it the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,52],"tags":[173,166,23,55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1767"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1853,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions\/1853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}