{"id":10978,"date":"2013-10-21T08:05:18","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T16:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=10978"},"modified":"2013-10-21T08:05:18","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T16:05:18","slug":"weekend-update-from-sikkim-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2013\/10\/21\/sikkim\/weekend-update-from-sikkim-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Update From Sikkim Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 21, 2013<\/p>\n<p>We heard from Phil &amp; the crew over the weekend, all is well!\u00c2\u00a0 On Saturday the team put in a good 7 hours of walking through the rhododendron forests and up along the ridge that separates Nepal from Sikkim, ending at their campsite on the Nepal side at 12,200&#8242;.\u00c2\u00a0 Perfect weather all the way.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday morning they were rewarded with a view of the sunrise on Kanchenjunga (world&#8217;s 3rd highest mountain at 8586m), Jannu (7710m) and Makalu (8481m).\u00c2\u00a0 With another 5 hours of hills and valleys under their belts they pulled in to the next camp at 13,000&#8242; just in time for a well deserved rest.<\/p>\n<p>Today will be a shorter trek through a wide valley with fantastic views all around.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone is doing well!<\/p>\n<p>Becky Kjorvestad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 21, 2013 We heard from Phil &amp; the crew over the weekend, all is well!\u00c2\u00a0 On Saturday the team put in a good 7 hours of walking through the rhododendron forests and up along the ridge that separates Nepal from Sikkim, ending at their campsite on the Nepal side at 12,200&#8242;.\u00c2\u00a0 Perfect weather all [&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-10978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sikkim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10978","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=10978"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10981,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10978\/revisions\/10981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}