{"id":21338,"date":"2018-12-27T11:09:36","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T19:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=21338"},"modified":"2018-12-27T11:09:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T19:09:36","slug":"dropping-into-phortse-on-the-december-trek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2018\/12\/27\/3-peaks-3-passes\/dropping-into-phortse-on-the-december-trek\/","title":{"rendered":"Dropping into Phortse on the December Trek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December 27, 2018<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-21338 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Ang-Tseri-Sherpa-at-Everest-Base-Camp-Sonam-Dorje_Sherpa.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[21338]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Ang-Tseri-Sherpa-at-Everest-Base-Camp-Sonam-Dorje_Sherpa-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Ang Tseri Sherpa at EBC (Sonam Dorje Sherpa)\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-21339\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Ang-Tseri-Sherpa-at-Everest-Base-Camp-Sonam-Dorje_Sherpa-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Ang-Tseri-Sherpa-at-Everest-Base-Camp-Sonam-Dorje_Sherpa-130x130.jpg 130w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Ang-Tseri-Sherpa-at-Everest-Base-Camp-Sonam-Dorje_Sherpa-70x70.jpg 70w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Ang-Tseri-Sherpa-at-Everest-Base-Camp-Sonam-Dorje_Sherpa-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-21339'>\n\t\t\t\tAng Tseri Sherpa at EBC (Sonam Dorje Sherpa)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_4221.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[21338]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_4221-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Phortse (Adam Clark)\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-21340\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_4221-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_4221-130x130.jpg 130w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_4221-70x70.jpg 70w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_4221-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-21340'>\n\t\t\t\tPhortse (Adam Clark)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sonam Dorje Sherpa checked in overnight to let us know the team is doing well. Today was on the cooler side with fog rolling in and out most of the day. Leaving Pheriche, above tree line and dropping down to Phortse is a great feeling. Phortse is one of the more beautiful villages that we visit during our treks. The majority of our climbing Sherpa Team lives in Phortse and our trekking team will receive a great home coming from everyone there. Tomorrow, the team will trek down to Namche where they will be picked up by a planned helicopter ride back to Lukla.<\/p>\n<p>All is well in the Khumbu Valley!<\/p>\n<p>Greg Vernovage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 27, 2018 &nbsp; Sonam Dorje Sherpa checked in overnight to let us know the team is doing well. Today was on the cooler side with fog rolling in and out most of the day. Leaving Pheriche, above tree line and dropping down to Phortse is a great feeling. Phortse is one of the more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21339,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,69,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3-peaks-3-passes","category-everest-trekking","category-nepal-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21338","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=21338"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21343,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21338\/revisions\/21343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}