{"id":7924,"date":"2012-08-28T09:24:59","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T17:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=7924"},"modified":"2012-08-28T09:35:36","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T17:35:36","slug":"manaslu-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/28\/manaslu\/manaslu-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Manaslu Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August 28, 2012<\/p>\n<p>Ang Jangbu reports that the IMG climbers successfully reached Arughat today by bus.\u00c2\u00a0 Sounds like the road conditions had improved, and they only had to switch buses once along the way.\u00c2\u00a0 Tomorrow they are ready to start the trekking to Sama Gaon.\u00c2\u00a0 For the trek up to Sama, (camping along the way) they will be accompanied by 6 trek sherpas, 4 kitchen boys, and 34 porters.\u00c2\u00a0 Right now, up in Sama, Phunuru reports that the first group of sherpas and porters have now reached Base Camp and the second team is heading up tomorrow.\u00c2\u00a0 Kaji Sherpa is en route to Sama right now with another porter team, and we have 50 Sama porters ordered for them to go up to BC on September 2. \u00c2\u00a0So far, so good!<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-7924 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\/2012\/08\/Ministry-of-Tourism-briefing.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[7924]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Ministry-of-Tourism-briefing-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-7925\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-7925'>\n\t\t\t\tMinistry of Tourism briefing (Ang Jangbu)\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\/2012\/08\/Hamill-with-Hawley.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[7924]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Hamill-with-Hawley-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-7926\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-7926'>\n\t\t\t\tMike Hamill and Liz Hawley in Kathmandu (Ang Jangbu)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Before leaving Kathmandu, Mike and the team did their required briefing at Ministry of Tourism and also met with legendary Himalayan historian Liz Hawley.\u00c2\u00a0 Liz estimates there will be 21 teams on Manaslu this autumn, including all the &#8220;usual suspects&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 (many of these teams also switched over from Cho Oyu, due to the current permit issues in Tibet).<\/p>\n<p>Eric Simonson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 28, 2012 Ang Jangbu reports that the IMG climbers successfully reached Arughat today by bus.\u00c2\u00a0 Sounds like the road conditions had improved, and they only had to switch buses once along the way.\u00c2\u00a0 Tomorrow they are ready to start the trekking to Sama Gaon.\u00c2\u00a0 For the trek up to Sama, (camping along the way) 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