{"id":10639,"date":"2013-09-19T08:09:49","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T16:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=10639"},"modified":"2013-09-20T22:55:56","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T06:55:56","slug":"dolpo-trek-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/19\/dolpo-trek\/dolpo-trek-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolpo Trek Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 19, 2013<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10640\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Masinchaur-Airport-Ang-Dorje-Sherpa.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[10639]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10640\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10640\" alt=\"Masinchaur Airport  (Ang Dorje Sherpa)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Masinchaur-Airport-Ang-Dorje-Sherpa.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Masinchaur-Airport-Ang-Dorje-Sherpa.jpg 960w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Masinchaur-Airport-Ang-Dorje-Sherpa-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Masinchaur-Airport-Ang-Dorje-Sherpa-940x705.jpg 940w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Masinchaur-Airport-Ang-Dorje-Sherpa-620x465.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Masinchaur-Airport-Ang-Dorje-Sherpa-195x146.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10640\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Masinchaur Airport (Ang Dorje Sherpa)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ang Jangbu reports that Adam Angel and the Dolpo team were up early at the hotel in Nepalgunj, so they could get to the airport and checked in by 5:30am for their scheduled 6:30 departure.\u00c2\u00a0 The weather was good and the Goma Air Cessna 208 Grand Caravan departed on schedule for Masinchaur airport, about 100 air miles north of Nepalgunj in western Nepal. \u00c2\u00a0After arrival, they were ready to start trekking, with the goal today the town of Dunai.\u00c2\u00a0 Good news&#8211;Adam reports that the team put in a full day of trekking today and made it to Dunai where they met up with their cook team and porters. So, the group is on schedule and everything so far has gone according to plan.\u00c2\u00a0 That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the way we like to start a trip!\u00c2\u00a0 Adam reports they have seen zero other westerners since leaving Nepalgunj.\u00c2\u00a0 Western Nepal is certainly a lot different from the more popular areas of the country, and these guys have a heck of a journey ahead of them.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Simonson<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 19, 2013 Ang Jangbu reports that Adam Angel and the Dolpo team were up early at the hotel in Nepalgunj, so they could get to the airport and checked in by 5:30am for their scheduled 6:30 departure.\u00c2\u00a0 The weather was good and the Goma Air Cessna 208 Grand Caravan departed on schedule for Masinchaur [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dolpo-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10639","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=10639"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10643,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10639\/revisions\/10643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}