{"id":6753,"date":"2012-04-17T10:52:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T18:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=6753"},"modified":"2012-04-17T10:52:14","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T18:52:14","slug":"annapurna-iv-team-closing-in-on-base-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2012\/04\/17\/annapurna-iv\/annapurna-iv-team-closing-in-on-base-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Annapurna IV Team Closing In On Base Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 17, 2012<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6754\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Annapurna-4-from-across-the-valley-near-Chulu-Far-East.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[6753]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6754\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6754\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Annapurna-4-from-across-the-valley-near-Chulu-Far-East-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Annapurna-4-from-across-the-valley-near-Chulu-Far-East-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Annapurna-4-from-across-the-valley-near-Chulu-Far-East-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6754\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annapurna 2 and 4 from across the valley near Chulu Far East. The route to A4 Base Camp ascends the valley on the right, then climbs up to the left onto the prominent bench below the peaks. You can see the airstrip in the small town of Humre at the base of the mountains. (Photo: Mingma Sherpa)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>IMG Leader Eben Reckord reports that the team is taking a rest day in Humre (11000 ft \/ 3350m) at the base of Annapurna 4.\u00c2\u00a0 This town is a great location for enjoying the views of the Chulu Peaks to the north, and the Annapurna peaks to the south. IMG Sherpas Phinjo and Pasang Tshering took a run up to Base Camp to survey the route.\u00c2\u00a0 They came back saying that there was several feet of fresh snow up there.\u00c2\u00a0 So, it will take a couple days to get everything up to the campsite.\u00c2\u00a0 In the meantime, the team is healthy and doing well with their acclimatization.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Simonson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 17, 2012 IMG Leader Eben Reckord reports that the team is taking a rest day in Humre (11000 ft \/ 3350m) at the base of Annapurna 4.\u00c2\u00a0 This town is a great location for enjoying the views of the Chulu Peaks to the north, and the Annapurna peaks to the south. IMG Sherpas Phinjo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annapurna-iv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6753","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=6753"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6756,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6753\/revisions\/6756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}