{"id":10645,"date":"2013-09-19T08:43:26","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T16:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=10645"},"modified":"2013-09-20T22:54:41","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T06:54:41","slug":"tibet-trekkers-reach-shegar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/19\/cho-oyu\/tibet-trekkers-reach-shegar\/","title":{"rendered":"Tibet Trekkers Reach Shegar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 19, 2013<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-10645 gallery-columns-2 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\/Shegar-Dzong-Eric-Simonson.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[10645]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Shegar-Dzong-Eric-Simonson-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-10646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Shegar-Dzong-Eric-Simonson-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Shegar-Dzong-Eric-Simonson-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Shegar-Dzong-Eric-Simonson-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Shegar-Dzong-Eric-Simonson-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-10646'>\n\t\t\t\tAncient town of Shegar (Xegar) with the Shekar Dzong fortress on the hill above  (Eric Simonson)\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='https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/simo0059.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[10645]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/simo0059-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-10647\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/simo0059-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/simo0059-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/simo0059-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/simo0059-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-10647'>\n\t\t\t\tFirst view of Everest from the North, on the road between Shigatse and Shegar  (Eric Simonson)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>After some nice hiking up at Rongbuk Base Camp, the Tibet Trekkers have now reached Shegar (Xegar).\u00c2\u00a0 This is the famous old Tibetan town with the old Dzong (fort) on the hill above. The British expeditions of the 1920\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s and 30\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s came through this town on their way from Kalimpong (India) as they trekked around from the north to get to Everest.\u00c2\u00a0 Next stop tomorrow for the trek team is Shigatse (Xigaz\u00c3\u00aa).<\/p>\n<p>Eric Simonson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 19, 2013 After some nice hiking up at Rongbuk Base Camp, the Tibet Trekkers have now reached Shegar (Xegar).\u00c2\u00a0 This is the famous old Tibetan town with the old Dzong (fort) on the hill above. The British expeditions of the 1920\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s and 30\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s came through this town on their way from Kalimpong (India) as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10646,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10645","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\/10645","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=10645"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10649,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10645\/revisions\/10649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}