{"id":7907,"date":"2012-08-27T08:30:19","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T16:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=7907"},"modified":"2012-08-27T14:18:34","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T22:18:34","slug":"sherpas-in-gama-gaon-heading-to-base-camp-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/27\/manaslu\/sherpas-in-gama-gaon-heading-to-base-camp-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Sherpas In Sama Gaon, Heading To Base Camp Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August 27, 2012<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-7907 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Sama-Gaon-chorten-looking-up-towards-BC.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[7907]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Sama-Gaon-chorten-looking-up-towards-BC-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-7908\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-7908'>\n\t\t\t\tSama Gaon chorten looking up towards BC (Phunuru Sherpa)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/sorting-porter-loads-in-Sama.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[7907]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/sorting-porter-loads-in-Sama-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-7909\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-7909'>\n\t\t\t\tSorting porter loads in Sama (Phunuru Sherpa)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/donkeys-on-trail-along-the-river.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[7907]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/donkeys-on-trail-along-the-river-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-7910\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-7910'>\n\t\t\t\tDonkeys on trail along the river (Phunuru Sherpa)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Phunuru Sherpa called from Sama Gaon to report they are now loading up the new local porters to go to base camp\u00c2\u00a0 (the low level porters from Arughat can not go to BC, as this stretch of the journey is claimed by the local men from Sama). \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Phunuru says they are sending 4 of the climbing sherpas and 50 porters today up to BC today, and the rest of the loads should \u00c2\u00a0go up tomorrow. They had to split the available porters with other expedition teams since there is a shortage of local porters.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0The expedition members are now arriving in Kathmandu, and getting ready to hit the road!<\/p>\n<p>Eric Simonson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 27, 2012 Phunuru Sherpa called from Sama Gaon to report they are now loading up the new local porters to go to base camp\u00c2\u00a0 (the low level porters from Arughat can not go to BC, as this stretch of the journey is claimed by the local men from Sama). \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Phunuru says they are sending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-manaslu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7907","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=7907"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7913,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7907\/revisions\/7913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}