{"id":10869,"date":"2013-10-09T07:43:30","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T15:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=10869"},"modified":"2013-10-09T07:43:30","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T15:43:30","slug":"cho-oyu-expedition-is-a-wrap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2013\/10\/09\/cho-oyu\/cho-oyu-expedition-is-a-wrap\/","title":{"rendered":"Cho Oyu Expedition Is A Wrap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 9, 2013<\/p>\n<p>I am super happy to report that our Cho Oyu team have all made it back to Kathmandu and that the trip has now come to an end.\u00c2\u00a0 These are long hard trips and it was great to see all the work pay off for the team.\u00c2\u00a0 We have now done Cho Oyu 24 times (22 successful) and put <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/pop_cho_oyu_summits.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">207 climbers on the summit<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 The 14 successful climbers from this 2013 trip included 2 guides, 7 clients, 5 sherpas.\u00c2\u00a0 We also had 1 climber and 1 sherpa turn from the plateau, just below the summit (they were going too slow, so the guides turned them).<\/p>\n<p>Before departing Kathmandu the team had the chance to get together for a team dinner at the Rum Doodle restaurant.\u00c2\u00a0 Also, they enjoyed a guest appearance by famous Himalayan historian Liz Hawley.\u00c2\u00a0 Liz is coming up on her 90th birthday.\u00c2\u00a0 Great to see you again, Liz!<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-10869 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Cho-Oyu-team-dinner-at-Rum-Doodle-Kaji-Sherpa.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[10869]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Cho-Oyu-team-dinner-at-Rum-Doodle-Kaji-Sherpa-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-10871\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Cho-Oyu-team-dinner-at-Rum-Doodle-Kaji-Sherpa-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Cho-Oyu-team-dinner-at-Rum-Doodle-Kaji-Sherpa-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Cho-Oyu-team-dinner-at-Rum-Doodle-Kaji-Sherpa-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Cho-Oyu-team-dinner-at-Rum-Doodle-Kaji-Sherpa-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-1-10871'>\n\t\t\t\tCho Oyu team dinner at Rum Doodle  (Kaji Sherpa)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Meeting-with-Liz-Hawley-in-KTM-Ang-Jangbu.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[10869]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Meeting-with-Liz-Hawley-in-KTM-Ang-Jangbu-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-10872\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Meeting-with-Liz-Hawley-in-KTM-Ang-Jangbu-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Meeting-with-Liz-Hawley-in-KTM-Ang-Jangbu-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Meeting-with-Liz-Hawley-in-KTM-Ang-Jangbu-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Meeting-with-Liz-Hawley-in-KTM-Ang-Jangbu-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-1-10872'>\n\t\t\t\tMeeting with Liz Hawley in KTM  (Ang Jangbu)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<br \/>\nThanks for following along with the Cho Oyu blog this year.\u00c2\u00a0 The first time I went to Cho Oyu was in 1995, with a team of climbers and guides that I organized.\u00c2\u00a0 At this time we were one of the first commercial teams to try Cho Oyu. If I recall, when we started the trip there had been only 9 Americans climb Cho Oyu, and when we went home there were 13 more.\u00c2\u00a0 Over the years Cho Oyu has been a great trip for us, but it is never a lay-up.\u00c2\u00a0 We have a lot of respect for this climb, and every year it is a big challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Simonson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 9, 2013 I am super happy to report that our Cho Oyu team have all made it back to Kathmandu and that the trip has now come to an end.\u00c2\u00a0 These are long hard trips and it was great to see all the work pay off for the team.\u00c2\u00a0 We have now done Cho [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10869","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\/10869","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=10869"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10878,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10869\/revisions\/10878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}