{"id":10831,"date":"2013-10-01T10:45:56","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T18:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=10831"},"modified":"2013-10-01T10:45:56","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T18:45:56","slug":"dolpo-trekkers-reach-shimen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2013\/10\/01\/dolpo-trek\/dolpo-trekkers-reach-shimen\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolpo Trekkers Reach Shimen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 1, 2013<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10832\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/DSC_0139-2.jpeg\" rel=\"lightbox[10831]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10832\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10832\" alt=\"Heading  up the Panjyan Khola valley (Lobsang Sherpa)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/DSC_0139-2.jpeg\" width=\"640\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/DSC_0139-2.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/DSC_0139-2-300x201.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/DSC_0139-2-620x415.jpeg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/DSC_0139-2-195x130.jpeg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10832\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heading up the Panjyan Khola valley (Lobsang Sherpa)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Adam Angel reports that the Dolpo team had a shorter day today, reaching Shimen in time to take bucket showers this afternoon and wash some laundry.\u00c2\u00a0 The team has now travelled from Saldang in the Nankhong Valley over into the Panjyan valley.\u00c2\u00a0 These valleys are north of the Himalayan watershed and drain west into the Karnali River.\u00c2\u00a0 The small villages in the area are all in the midst of the harvest season, with lots of barley being cut, dried, and threshed.\u00c2\u00a0 Tomorrow they continue up the\u00c2\u00a0 Panjyan Khola (river) past the old trading village of Tingue (Tinje), from the days when salt mined in Tibet was the main trading commodity.\u00c2\u00a0 Nowadays it is mainly Chinese hardgoods being carried across the nearby border by mules and porters.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Simonson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 1, 2013 Adam Angel reports that the Dolpo team had a shorter day today, reaching Shimen in time to take bucket showers this afternoon and wash some laundry.\u00c2\u00a0 The team has now travelled from Saldang in the Nankhong Valley over into the Panjyan valley.\u00c2\u00a0 These valleys are north of the Himalayan watershed and drain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10831","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\/10831","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=10831"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10834,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10831\/revisions\/10834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}