{"id":12650,"date":"2014-10-14T11:14:29","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T19:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=12650"},"modified":"2014-10-14T11:14:29","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T19:14:29","slug":"preparing-for-departure-in-kathmandu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2014\/10\/14\/ama-dablam\/preparing-for-departure-in-kathmandu\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing For Departure In Kathmandu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 14, 2014<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-12650 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Ama-Dablam-Rooftop-meeting.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[12650]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Ama-Dablam-Rooftop-meeting-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-12651\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Ama-Dablam-Rooftop-meeting-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Ama-Dablam-Rooftop-meeting-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Ama-Dablam-Rooftop-meeting-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Ama-Dablam-Rooftop-meeting-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-1-12651'>\n\t\t\t\tAma Dablam Climbing Team (Ang Jangbu)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Fall-Trekking-Roof-Top.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[12650]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Fall-Trekking-Roof-Top-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-12652\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Fall-Trekking-Roof-Top-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Fall-Trekking-Roof-Top-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Fall-Trekking-Roof-Top-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Fall-Trekking-Roof-Top-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-1-12652'>\n\t\t\t\tBase Camp Trekking Team (Ang Jangbu)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The Ama Dablam and Everest Base Camp Trekkers and Climbers are packed and ready to go.\u00c2\u00a0 A day of packing and last minute errands.\u00c2\u00a0 The day started on the roof, Jangbu and the Guide Team went over logistics and trip details, protect the airway from the Khumbu cough and stay out of the way of Yaks!<\/p>\n<p>Kathmandu was wet today.\u00c2\u00a0 The edge of Cyclone Hudhud is to the West.\u00c2\u00a0 That didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stop us from having the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153welcome dinner.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 A great chance to get to know our teammates!\u00c2\u00a0 We are very optimistic that the clouds will part in the morning and the Teams will fly to Lukla.<\/p>\n<p>Up the Valley, Mike called in from Namche to report that it had been raining but the temperatures were tolerable.\u00c2\u00a0 His plan is to rest tomorrow and take in the sites of Namche and the Everest View Hotel.<\/p>\n<p>The 3 x 3 and Ama Dablam Team will be up before dawn for breakfast and head towards the airport for their flight.\u00c2\u00a0 We are the first two flights scheduled for the morning. Good News! They should have great views on the flight in!<\/p>\n<p>Greg Vernovage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 14, 2014 The Ama Dablam and Everest Base Camp Trekkers and Climbers are packed and ready to go.\u00c2\u00a0 A day of packing and last minute errands.\u00c2\u00a0 The day started on the roof, Jangbu and the Guide Team went over logistics and trip details, protect the airway from the Khumbu cough and stay out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3-peaks-3-passes","category-ama-dablam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12650","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=12650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12653,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12650\/revisions\/12653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}