{"id":5918,"date":"2016-02-16T17:38:11","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T17:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=5918"},"modified":"2016-02-16T17:38:11","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T17:38:11","slug":"visit-from-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=5918","title":{"rendered":"Visit from Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5919\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5919\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5919\" alt=\"Italian guide Renzo Corona climbing The Shield Direct (VII,6) on Ben Nevis. As far as I know this is the first time this modern classic has been climbed this season. (Photo Renzo Corona collection)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/16Feb2016_Ben-Nevis001.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"763\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/16Feb2016_Ben-Nevis001.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/16Feb2016_Ben-Nevis001-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5919\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Italian guide Renzo Corona climbing The Shield Direct (VII,6) on Ben Nevis. The photo was taken on February 13 and as far as I know this is the first time this modern classic has been climbed this season. (Photo Renzo Corona collection)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I receive all sorts of correspondence for scottshwinter.com but the following email from February 14 made me smile\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHello, I apologize for my English, I&#8217;m Renzo Italian mountain guide crown have been to you for a tour with friend Martin, the time left us to climb, the first day to know a little stayed at Cairn Gorm of Aladdin the way the Flame, the second on Carn Megadich, the way Smith routes, the third day to the well-nevis Carn Deargh the way Schield direct, beautiful, today Fort Williams visits to distilleries, sure be back, we loved it&#8230; even the beer!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I think Renzo\u2019s account has suffered the ravages of Google Translate, but The Lamp (V,6), Smith\u2019s Gully (VI,5) and The Shield Direct (VII,6) is a pretty good haul for a first three days in Scotland. Bravo Renzo and Martin!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I receive all sorts of correspondence for scottshwinter.com but the following email from February 14 made me smile\u2026 \u201cHello, I apologize for my English, I&#8217;m Renzo Italian mountain guide crown have been to you for a tour with friend Martin, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=5918\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[8,219,25,598],"class_list":["post-5918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","tag-ben-nevis","tag-creag-meagaidh","tag-northern-corries","tag-renzo-corona"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5918"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5925,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5918\/revisions\/5925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}