{"id":10689,"date":"2013-09-23T08:40:48","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T16:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=10689"},"modified":"2013-09-23T10:57:41","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T18:57:41","slug":"dolpo-trekkers-continue-north-towards-tibet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/23\/dolpo-trek\/dolpo-trekkers-continue-north-towards-tibet\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolpo Trekkers Continue North Towards Tibet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 23, 2013<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10691\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?msa=0&amp;msid=207909376755941343352.00046024c5a7dac225d1d&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;t=p&amp;vpsrc=0&amp;ll=29.106576,83.331299&amp;spn=1.199852,1.919861&amp;z=9&amp;source=embed\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10691\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10691 \" title=\"Dolpo Trek map\" alt=\"Dolpo Trek map\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/map-dolpo-trek-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/map-dolpo-trek-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/map-dolpo-trek-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/map-dolpo-trek-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/map-dolpo-trek-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10691\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to see the full sized Dolpo Trek map on Google<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Adam Angel reports the team had a well-deserved rest day at Phoksundo Lake, after several days of trekking up through old growth Juniper forests.\u00c2\u00a0 They camped at the Lake, did some exploring, and also enjoyed showers and a celebration of Adam&#8217;s birthday which I am sure he will not forget!\u00c2\u00a0 Now the trekkers and Sherpa staff continue trekking north for several more days with mules carrying their camping gear.\u00c2\u00a0 Their next big goal is making it over the Nangdala La (pass) at over 17,500 feet, from which they drop down to the Shey Monastery.\u00c2\u00a0 At this point they will have essentially crossed the Himalayas to the Tibetan plateau, and this area is high, arid, and ethnically Tibetan&#8230; it just ended up on the Nepal side of the border!<\/p>\n<p>Eric Simonson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 23, 2013 Adam Angel reports the team had a well-deserved rest day at Phoksundo Lake, after several days of trekking up through old growth Juniper forests.\u00c2\u00a0 They camped at the Lake, did some exploring, and also enjoyed showers and a celebration of Adam&#8217;s birthday which I am sure he will not forget!\u00c2\u00a0 Now the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10691,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10689","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\/10689","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=10689"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10712,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10689\/revisions\/10712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}