{"id":11945,"date":"2014-05-02T10:44:09","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T18:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=11945"},"modified":"2014-05-02T10:44:09","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T18:44:09","slug":"trekkers-reach-annapurna-base-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/02\/annapurna-trek-chulu-climb\/trekkers-reach-annapurna-base-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Trekkers Reach Annapurna Base Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 2, 2014<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11946\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/The-South-Face-of-Annapurna-1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[11945]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11946\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946\" alt=\"The South Face of Annapurna  1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/The-South-Face-of-Annapurna-1.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/The-South-Face-of-Annapurna-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/The-South-Face-of-Annapurna-1-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/The-South-Face-of-Annapurna-1-620x422.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/The-South-Face-of-Annapurna-1-195x132.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11946\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The South Face of Annapurna 1<\/p><\/div>\n<p>IMG guide Jenni Pfafman reports that her team successfully reached Annapurna Base Camp this morning.\u00c2\u00a0 They had rain overnight, but the weather cleared for them and they were able to get the big views that they were hoping for.<\/p>\n<p>Annapurna is the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tenth highest mountain and was the first 8000m peak climbed.\u00c2\u00a0 The South Face of Annapurna represents an important chapter of Himalayan history, as one of the first big technical walls on an 8000m peak climbed in Nepal back in 1970, by the famous British climber Don Whillans and Scottish climber Dougal Haston, on an expedition led by Chris Bonnington.<\/p>\n<p>After their visit to Base Camp, Jenni and the team descended back to Machapuchare BC and\u00c2\u00a0 then continued down to the settlement of Himalaya, deep in the bamboo and rhododendron jungle of the Modi Khola gorge.\u00c2\u00a0 Tomorrow they head back to Chomrung.\u00c2\u00a0 Well done, team!<\/p>\n<p>Eric Simonson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 2, 2014 IMG guide Jenni Pfafman reports that her team successfully reached Annapurna Base Camp this morning.\u00c2\u00a0 They had rain overnight, but the weather cleared for them and they were able to get the big views that they were hoping for. Annapurna is the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tenth highest mountain and was the first 8000m peak [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-annapurna-trek-chulu-climb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11945","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=11945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11947,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11945\/revisions\/11947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}