{"id":1642,"date":"2010-09-28T08:15:41","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T16:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=1642"},"modified":"2010-09-28T08:39:29","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T16:39:29","slug":"cho-oyu-climbers-down-heading-for-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/28\/cho-oyu\/cho-oyu-climbers-down-heading-for-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Cho Oyu Climbers Down, Heading For Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 28, 2010<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1643\" style=\"width: 209px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/C2-Ice-Cliffs-route-to-c3.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1642]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1643\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1643 \" title=\"Cho Oyu Ice Cliffs\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/C2-Ice-Cliffs-route-to-c3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/C2-Ice-Cliffs-route-to-c3.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/C2-Ice-Cliffs-route-to-c3-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1643\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cho Oyu<\/p><\/div>\n<p>IMG  leader Mike Hamill reports from ABC that all members and Sherpas are now down,  and the equipment has all been carried down.\u00c2\u00a0 They are packing up and leaving on  the 30th, and expecting to be back to Kathmandu on the 1st.\u00c2\u00a0 Mike gave some more  details on the turnaround decision.\u00c2\u00a0 It sounds like the Sherpa fixing crew  kicked off yet another avalanche up high, above the Yellow Band, and several of  them were carried some distance.\u00c2\u00a0 There were some minor injuries but it sounds  like everyone is OK. \u00c2\u00a0There is just too much snow this year, it has been a very  persistent monsoon season.\u00c2\u00a0 This was the 22<sup>nd<\/sup> Cho Oyu expedition that  IMG has done, and only the second time we have not made the top.\u00c2\u00a0 We want to  make the top as much as anybody, and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll try super hard to be successful, but  most important is the safety of our team members.\u00c2\u00a0 Sometimes the mountain just  says no!\u00c2\u00a0 It is just great to know everyone is safe and sound and on their way  home now.<\/p>\n<p>Eric  Simonson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 28, 2010 IMG leader Mike Hamill reports from ABC that all members and Sherpas are now down, and the equipment has all been carried down.\u00c2\u00a0 They are packing up and leaving on the 30th, and expecting to be back to Kathmandu on the 1st.\u00c2\u00a0 Mike gave some more details on the turnaround decision.\u00c2\u00a0 It [&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-1642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cho-oyu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642","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=1642"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1649,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions\/1649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}