{"id":10886,"date":"2013-10-11T10:05:18","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T18:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=10886"},"modified":"2013-10-11T11:07:34","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T19:07:34","slug":"where-in-the-world-is-phil-ershler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2013\/10\/11\/sikkim\/where-in-the-world-is-phil-ershler\/","title":{"rendered":"Where In The World Is Phil Ershler?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 13, 2013<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10887\" style=\"width: 140px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/philand-gombu.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[10886]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10887\" class=\"size-square_small wp-image-10887\" alt=\"Gombu and Phil at Gombu\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s home in 2006. (photo: Mike Schiller) \" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/philand-gombu-130x130.jpg\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/philand-gombu-130x130.jpg 130w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/philand-gombu-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/philand-gombu-70x70.jpg 70w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/philand-gombu-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 130px) 100vw, 130px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10887\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gombu and Phil at Gombu\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s home in 2006. (photo: Mike Schiller)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In case anyone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s interested in what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m up to these days, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re heading to Sikkim today for a custom group trek.\u00c2\u00a0 Got engaged in Sikkim many years ago and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been several years since our last trek there.\u00c2\u00a0 We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got a large group of friends heading over with us and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll get out some updates when we can.<\/p>\n<p>The trip starts in Delhi.\u00c2\u00a0 We fly from there to Bagdogra, in the State of West Bengal, and then head up to Darjeeling.\u00c2\u00a0 Darjeeling is the home of the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute and is where my good friend, Nawang Gombu, lived until his passing a couple of years ago.\u00c2\u00a0 From there, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s into Sikkim and a couple of weeks on our trek to watch the sun rise on the East Face of Kangchenjunga.<\/p>\n<p>Our good friend, Mark Ursino, is on this trek.\u00c2\u00a0 Mark has been all over the world with IMG.\u00c2\u00a0 And, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a blogger extraordinaire!\u00c2\u00a0 Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markursino.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.markursino.com<\/a> as we go to learn more about Sikkim and what we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re up to.\u00c2\u00a0 Should get you excited for the next IMG trek over here.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 13, 2013 In case anyone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s interested in what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m up to these days, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re heading to Sikkim today for a custom group trek.\u00c2\u00a0 Got engaged in Sikkim many years ago and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been several years since our last trek there.\u00c2\u00a0 We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got a large group of friends heading over with us and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sikkim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10886"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10891,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10886\/revisions\/10891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}