{"id":15788,"date":"2016-09-02T10:16:35","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T18:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=15788"},"modified":"2016-09-02T10:19:57","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T18:19:57","slug":"hurry-up-wait-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2016\/09\/02\/cho-oyu\/hurry-up-wait-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurry Up &#038; Wait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 1, 2016<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15793\" style=\"width: 1290px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Waiting.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[15788]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15793\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15793\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Waiting.jpg\" alt=\"Hurry up and wait.\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Waiting.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Waiting-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Waiting-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Waiting-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Waiting-940x705.jpg 940w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Waiting-620x465.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Waiting-195x146.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15793\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hurry up and wait.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Just off the phone with Mike and Jangbu in Lhasa.\u00c2\u00a0 There are many things that we prepare for on big expeditions, but one thing that you can&#8217;t prepare for, but will definitely encounter on every expedition, is the fact that at some point you&#8217;re going to have to hurry up&#8230; and then wait. There is just no way around it!\u00c2\u00a0 This was clearly illustrated by a 3 hour weather delay at the KTM airport.\u00c2\u00a0 The good news is that in the end they made it to Lhasa!\u00c2\u00a0 Jangbu reported that they had a great dinner and are in a new hotel.\u00c2\u00a0 <span data-term=\"goog_563101473\">Tomorrow<\/span> is the city tour of Lhasa.\u00c2\u00a0 It will be great for acclimatizing!<\/p>\n<p>More great news came from our climbing Sirdar Phunuru.\u00c2\u00a0 Phunuru informed that all Sherpas and the truck with gear have arrived to the Nepal border, Timure. \u00c2\u00a0They are going to spend the night in Timure and cross the border <span data-term=\"goog_563101474\">tomorrow<\/span> morning.<\/p>\n<p>Greg Vernovage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 1, 2016 Just off the phone with Mike and Jangbu in Lhasa.\u00c2\u00a0 There are many things that we prepare for on big expeditions, but one thing that you can&#8217;t prepare for, but will definitely encounter on every expedition, is the fact that at some point you&#8217;re going to have to hurry up&#8230; and then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15793,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15788","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\/15788","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=15788"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15796,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15788\/revisions\/15796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}