{"id":18159,"date":"2017-10-30T11:21:44","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T19:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=18159"},"modified":"2017-10-30T11:21:44","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T19:21:44","slug":"lobuche-peak-summits-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2017\/10\/30\/lobuche\/lobuche-peak-summits-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lobuche Peak Summits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 30, 2017<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18160\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/lobuche-summit-pano2014_jm.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[18159]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18160\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18160\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/lobuche-summit-pano2014_jm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/lobuche-summit-pano2014_jm.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/lobuche-summit-pano2014_jm-300x67.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/lobuche-summit-pano2014_jm-768x173.jpg 768w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/lobuche-summit-pano2014_jm-940x211.jpg 940w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/lobuche-summit-pano2014_jm-620x139.jpg 620w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/lobuche-summit-pano2014_jm-195x44.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18160\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View from the summit of Lobuche (Justin Merle)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Great news from Lobuche Peak (20,075 ft) overnight!\u00c2\u00a0 Harry and Dawa checked in to let us know that they reached the summit of Lobuche Peak.\u00c2\u00a0 The Team started climbing at 4 am.\u00c2\u00a0 It was clear and cold for at the start of the climb.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a great climb!\u00c2\u00a0 High Camp is a short distance from Lobuche Base Camp.\u00c2\u00a0 It takes the team about an hour and a half of trekking to arrive to High Camp (17,300 ft).\u00c2\u00a0 From High Camp, the Team bends around a small lake and onto the rock slabs.\u00c2\u00a0 From the rock slabs, the Team works their way through the rocks and heads up a steep trough that we fix before arriving at Crampon Point.\u00c2\u00a0 By now the sun is coming up and the views are fantastic.\u00c2\u00a0 On the climbers right, they see the North Ridge of Ama Dablam and behind them, Kangtega.\u00c2\u00a0 Up the fix lines, slow and steady the summit brings views of Everest, Lhotse and Makalu.\u00c2\u00a0 Lower in the distance is Everest Base Camp.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/lobuche.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000080;\">This is a great climb<\/span><\/a> to get the big picture of the Himalayan Mountains!<\/p>\n<p>Greg Vernovage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 30, 2017 Great news from Lobuche Peak (20,075 ft) overnight!\u00c2\u00a0 Harry and Dawa checked in to let us know that they reached the summit of Lobuche Peak.\u00c2\u00a0 The Team started climbing at 4 am.\u00c2\u00a0 It was clear and cold for at the start of the climb.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a great climb!\u00c2\u00a0 High Camp is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lobuche"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18159","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=18159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18161,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18159\/revisions\/18161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}