{"id":10460,"date":"2013-08-30T23:03:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T07:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=10460"},"modified":"2013-08-30T23:08:52","modified_gmt":"2013-08-31T07:08:52","slug":"cho-oyu-team-heading-for-tibet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/30\/cho-oyu\/cho-oyu-team-heading-for-tibet\/","title":{"rendered":"Cho Oyu Team Heading for Tibet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August 30, 2013<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10461\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/team-ktm-bus.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[10460]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10461\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10461  \" title=\"IMG 2013 Cho Oyu climbers and trekkers ready to get on the bus in Kathmandu\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/team-ktm-bus-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/team-ktm-bus-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/team-ktm-bus-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/team-ktm-bus-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/team-ktm-bus-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10461\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">IMG 2013 Cho Oyu Team<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ang Jangbu reports that the IMG Cho Oyu team departed Kathmandu at 6am. They have about 4 hours of driving to Kodari, where they depart Nepal. Then, they walk across the Friendship Bridge (over the Bhote Kosi River) where they meet their CMA Chinese Liaison Officer, Li Chengxian.\u00c2\u00a0 After clearing the Chinese immigration and transferring to Chinese vehicles, it&#8217;s time to head up the big hill to Zhangmu.\u00c2\u00a0 Once they get checked into the hotel, it&#8217;s time for a big Chinese lunch in one of the local restaurants.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10462\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/zhangmu_jr.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[10460]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10462\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10462  \" title=\"Zhangmu, Tibet (photo: John Race)\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/zhangmu_jr-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/zhangmu_jr-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/zhangmu_jr-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/zhangmu_jr-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/zhangmu_jr-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10462\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zhangmu, Tibet<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Then, this afternoon, they can walk it off around Zhangmu and get their first taste of altitude (about 7500 ft).\u00c2\u00a0 So far so good!<\/p>\n<p>-Eric Simonson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 30, 2013 Ang Jangbu reports that the IMG Cho Oyu team departed Kathmandu at 6am. They have about 4 hours of driving to Kodari, where they depart Nepal. Then, they walk across the Friendship Bridge (over the Bhote Kosi River) where they meet their CMA Chinese Liaison Officer, Li Chengxian.\u00c2\u00a0 After clearing the Chinese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10461,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cho-oyu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10460"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10468,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10460\/revisions\/10468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}