{"id":10660,"date":"2013-09-20T22:42:56","date_gmt":"2013-09-21T06:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=10660"},"modified":"2013-09-20T22:44:21","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T06:44:21","slug":"dolpo-trekkers-heading-for-phoksundo-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/20\/dolpo-trek\/dolpo-trekkers-heading-for-phoksundo-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolpo Trekkers Heading for Phoksundo Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"

September 20, 2013<\/p>\n

\"Phoksundo<\/a>

Phoksundo Lake<\/p><\/div>\n

IMG guide Adam Angel reports by sat-phone that the team started trekking north today, up a long gradual valley following the Suli Khola River, after yesterday’s camp at Dunai.\u00c2\u00a0 He described how today they have crossed a cultural demarcation line.\u00c2\u00a0 Whereas yesterday and this morning were all Nepalese hillfolk, predominantly Hindu, this afternoon and onward they have moved into an area peopled by those of Tibetan ancestry.\u00c2\u00a0 The name of the river changes too; it is now called the Phoksundo Khola.\u00c2\u00a0 Tomorrow they enter the forest zone, and the team will continue to follow this river for two more days of trekking, until they reach its source: the large Phoksundo Lake at nearly 12,000 feet in the Shey Phoksundo National Park<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Eric Simonson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

September 20, 2013 IMG guide Adam Angel reports by sat-phone that the team started trekking north today, up a long gradual valley following the Suli Khola River, after yesterday’s camp at Dunai.\u00c2\u00a0 He described how today they have crossed a cultural demarcation line.\u00c2\u00a0 Whereas yesterday and this morning were all Nepalese hillfolk, predominantly Hindu, this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10661,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10660","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\/10660","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=10660"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10663,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10660\/revisions\/10663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}