{"id":10496,"date":"2013-09-05T10:59:22","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T18:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=10496"},"modified":"2013-09-05T12:00:34","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T20:00:34","slug":"climbers-and-trekkers-reach-cho-oyu-base-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/05\/cho-oyu\/climbers-and-trekkers-reach-cho-oyu-base-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Climbers And Trekkers Reach Cho Oyu Base Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 5, 2013<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-10496 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='https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Base-Camp-tent-and-Cho-Oyu.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[10496]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Base-Camp-tent-and-Cho-Oyu-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Base Camp tent and Cho Oyu (Ang Jangbu)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Base-Camp-tent-and-Cho-Oyu-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Base-Camp-tent-and-Cho-Oyu-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Base-Camp-tent-and-Cho-Oyu-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Base-Camp-tent-and-Cho-Oyu-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Rachu-valley.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[10496]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Rachu-valley-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Ra Chu Valley (Ang Jangbu)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Rachu-valley-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Rachu-valley-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Rachu-valley-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Rachu-valley-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Yaks-heading-up-the-valley-above-BC.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[10496]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Yaks-heading-up-the-valley-above-BC-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Yaks heading up road above Base Camp (Ang Jangbu)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Yaks-heading-up-the-valley-above-BC-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Yaks-heading-up-the-valley-above-BC-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Yaks-heading-up-the-valley-above-BC-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Yaks-heading-up-the-valley-above-BC-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The IMG Cho Oyu climbers and Tibet Trekkers have now reached Base Camp (about 15000 ft) after driving up the Ra Chu Valley from Tingri.\u00c2\u00a0 Everyone is doing well and the team is excited to finally be getting close to their objective.\u00c2\u00a0 Phunuru and the Sherpa team have been busy getting a nice camp established and packing up the yak loads for Advanced Base Camp.\u00c2\u00a0 They have 30 yaks arriving later today and tomorrow. The yaks and yak drivers will start up with the first loads for ABC, accompanied by Mingma Tenzing and Chewang Lendu.\u00c2\u00a0 The members will take another couple days of acclimatization hiking in the BC area, before they move up.\u00c2\u00a0 Advanced Base Camp is well over 18,000 feet, so we want to make sure everyone is well acclimatized before moving up there.<\/p>\n<p>So far, so good!<\/p>\n<p>Eric Simonson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 5, 2013 The IMG Cho Oyu climbers and Tibet Trekkers have now reached Base Camp (about 15000 ft) after driving up the Ra Chu Valley from Tingri.\u00c2\u00a0 Everyone is doing well and the team is excited to finally be getting close to their objective.\u00c2\u00a0 Phunuru and the Sherpa team have been busy getting a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cho-oyu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10496","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10496"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10502,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10496\/revisions\/10502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}