{"id":14316,"date":"2015-10-05T11:30:59","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T19:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=14316"},"modified":"2015-10-05T11:30:59","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T19:30:59","slug":"himalayan-trekking-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2015\/10\/05\/everest\/himalayan-trekking-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Himalayan Trekking Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 5, 2015<\/p>\n<p>The Dolpo Trek and the Mera peak trek are both doing great!<\/p>\n<p>Reports from Dolpo are that is feels like the Monsoon has moved completely out of the area.\u00c2\u00a0 This is great news!\u00c2\u00a0 The team camped at over 15,500 feet and are gearing up for a long day of high pass trekking through Trek to Yak Kharka (4,775m), camp.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-14316 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\/2015\/10\/Dolpo-10.5.15-1.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[14316]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dolpo-10.5.15-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-14317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dolpo-10.5.15-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dolpo-10.5.15-1-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dolpo-10.5.15-1-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dolpo-10.5.15-1-45x45.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-1-14317'>\n\t\t\t\tTrekking into Tsharka Bot (Adam Angel)\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\/2015\/10\/Dolpo-10.5.15-2.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[14316]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dolpo-10.5.15-2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-14318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dolpo-10.5.15-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dolpo-10.5.15-2-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dolpo-10.5.15-2-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dolpo-10.5.15-2-45x45.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-1-14318'>\n\t\t\t\t(Photo by Adam Angel)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For Eric and the Mera Peak trek, they report great weather in the mornings with some light nonthreatening cloud cover in the evening.\u00c2\u00a0 All is well and the team is moving up the valley and closer to their objective.\u00c2\u00a0 The team is making good progress and looking forward to the climb now that they have Mera Peak in view.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-14316 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\/2015\/10\/From-near-Khare_Mera-Peak-and-view-down-the-Hinku-valley-towards-Thagnak.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[14316]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/From-near-Khare_Mera-Peak-and-view-down-the-Hinku-valley-towards-Thagnak-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-14319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/From-near-Khare_Mera-Peak-and-view-down-the-Hinku-valley-towards-Thagnak-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/From-near-Khare_Mera-Peak-and-view-down-the-Hinku-valley-towards-Thagnak-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/From-near-Khare_Mera-Peak-and-view-down-the-Hinku-valley-towards-Thagnak-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/From-near-Khare_Mera-Peak-and-view-down-the-Hinku-valley-towards-Thagnak-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-2-14319'>\n\t\t\t\tFrom near Khare, Mera Peak and view down the Hinku valley toward Thagnak (Eric Simonson)\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\/2015\/10\/Mera-Peak-from-above-Khare.-Mera-La-out-of-sight-to-left.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[14316]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Mera-Peak-from-above-Khare.-Mera-La-out-of-sight-to-left-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-14320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Mera-Peak-from-above-Khare.-Mera-La-out-of-sight-to-left-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Mera-Peak-from-above-Khare.-Mera-La-out-of-sight-to-left-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Mera-Peak-from-above-Khare.-Mera-La-out-of-sight-to-left-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Mera-Peak-from-above-Khare.-Mera-La-out-of-sight-to-left-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-2-14320'>\n\t\t\t\tMera Peak from above Khare.  Mera La out of sight to left (Eric Simonson)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Greg Vernovage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 5, 2015 The Dolpo Trek and the Mera peak trek are both doing great! Reports from Dolpo are that is feels like the Monsoon has moved completely out of the area.\u00c2\u00a0 This is great news!\u00c2\u00a0 The team camped at over 15,500 feet and are gearing up for a long day of high pass trekking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14317,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dolpo-trek","category-everest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14316","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14322,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14316\/revisions\/14322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}