{"id":14415,"date":"2015-10-23T10:52:27","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T18:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=14415"},"modified":"2015-10-23T10:52:27","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T18:52:27","slug":"gearing-up-for-khongma-la-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2015\/10\/23\/lobuche\/gearing-up-for-khongma-la-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"Gearing Up For Khongma La Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 23, 2015<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14416\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_5855.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[14415]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14416\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14416\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_5855.jpg\" alt=\"Kicking back with Ama Dablam (22,494ft.) looming in the background. (Tye Chapman)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_5855.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_5855-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_5855-940x705.jpg 940w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_5855-620x465.jpg 620w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_5855-195x146.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14416\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kicking back with Ama Dablam (22,494ft.) looming in the background. (Tye Chapman)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Craig called in after a great rest day in Chukkung.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Pretty quiet day.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 Perfect plan with what the team has in store for them the next couple days.\u00c2\u00a0 First things first, get over the Khongma La Pass which sits at 18,320ft.\u00c2\u00a0 Once up and over the pass they&#8217;ll walk down, down, down to Lobuche (16,100ft). This will be a long day at altitude for the team!<\/p>\n<p>The plan is to wake up early and get the gear moving toward Lobuche.\u00c2\u00a0 After a good breakfast, the team will hit the trail, walking by about 6 am.\u00c2\u00a0 Plenty of water and having the micro spikes in their backpacks is not a bad idea for tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>It is a great time to be in the Khumbu!<\/p>\n<p>Greg Vernovage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 23, 2015 Craig called in after a great rest day in Chukkung.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Pretty quiet day.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 Perfect plan with what the team has in store for them the next couple days.\u00c2\u00a0 First things first, get over the Khongma La Pass which sits at 18,320ft.\u00c2\u00a0 Once up and over the pass they&#8217;ll walk down, down, down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-peaks-3-passes","category-lobuche"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14415","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=14415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14417,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14415\/revisions\/14417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}