{"id":1362,"date":"2010-08-31T13:41:46","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T21:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=1362"},"modified":"2010-08-31T13:41:46","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T21:41:46","slug":"all-is-well-at-base-camp-15500ft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/31\/cho-oyu\/all-is-well-at-base-camp-15500ft\/","title":{"rendered":"All Is Well At Base Camp (15,500ft)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August 31, 2010<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1363\" style=\"width: 224px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/loadinayak.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1362]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1363\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1363\" title=\"Loading a yak - what a view! \" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/loadinayak.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1363\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Loading a yak - what a view! <\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mike Hamill  reports from Cho Oyu BC at about 15,500 feet that everyone is doing very well.  Today the team took another acclimatization hike and the Sherpas continued to  pack up yak loads and get ready to move to Advanced Base Camp (ABC).\u00c2\u00a0 Later in  the afternoon they had some rain with some fresh snow on the higher hills above  camp.\u00c2\u00a0 Overall, however, the weather is quite good on the Tibet side of the  range (unlike Nepal where the monsoon is still going strong).<\/p>\n<p>IMG Sherpas  Mingma Tenzing, Mingma Dorje, and Nima Karma and the Tibetan yak drivers made it  up to ABC with 30 yaks today and are working to get that camp established. \u00c2\u00a0Each  yak can carry about 60 kg (in the autumn season, when they are strong from  summer grazing) with one 30kg load on each side.\u00c2\u00a0 Tomorrow the yaks will come  back down to Base Camp and then the next day (Sep 2) the members and remaining  Sherpas will move to Interim Camp (IC), and then to ABC the following  day.<\/p>\n<p>Eric<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 31, 2010 Mike Hamill reports from Cho Oyu BC at about 15,500 feet that everyone is doing very well. Today the team took another acclimatization hike and the Sherpas continued to pack up yak loads and get ready to move to Advanced Base Camp (ABC).\u00c2\u00a0 Later in the afternoon they had some rain with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cho-oyu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362","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=1362"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1368,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions\/1368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}