{"id":10757,"date":"2013-09-26T09:32:25","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T17:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=10757"},"modified":"2013-12-03T15:58:57","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T23:58:57","slug":"dolpo-trekkers-reach-shey-gompa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/26\/dolpo-trek\/dolpo-trekkers-reach-shey-gompa\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolpo Trekkers Reach Shey Gompa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 26, 2013<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/shey_gompa_aa.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[10757]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-11307\" alt=\"Shey Gompa (photo: Adam Angel)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/shey_gompa_aa-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/shey_gompa_aa-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/shey_gompa_aa-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/shey_gompa_aa-940x626.jpg 940w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/shey_gompa_aa-620x413.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/shey_gompa_aa-195x129.jpg 195w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/shey_gompa_aa.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>Adam called on the sat phone to report they made it over the 17,400 foot pass and have now descended to 14,200 feet at Shey Gompa, built in the 11th century.\u00c2\u00a0 Along the way they saw Himalayan blue sheep and have clearly now entered a more arid (Tibet like) geographical area.\u00c2\u00a0 Some people may recall that Shey Gompa was visited by Peter Matthiessen and biologist George Schaller in the 1970\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s and written about in Matthiessen&#8217;s famous book The Snow Leopard.\u00c2\u00a0 Adam says that they have only seen one other trek group, from France.\u00c2\u00a0 Otherwise, they have encountered zero other trekkers in the area.\u00c2\u00a0 Tomorrow they will take a rest day and explore the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Crystal Mountain\u00e2\u20ac\u009d area around the Gompa.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Simonson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 26, 2013 Adam called on the sat phone to report they made it over the 17,400 foot pass and have now descended to 14,200 feet at Shey Gompa, built in the 11th century.\u00c2\u00a0 Along the way they saw Himalayan blue sheep and have clearly now entered a more arid (Tibet like) geographical area.\u00c2\u00a0 Some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10758,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10757","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\/10757","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=10757"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11308,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10757\/revisions\/11308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}