{"id":16957,"date":"2017-02-27T10:01:01","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T18:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=16957"},"modified":"2017-02-27T10:01:01","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T18:01:01","slug":"losar-holiday-celebrated-food-and-gear-packing-continues-in-kathmandu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2017\/02\/27\/everest\/losar-holiday-celebrated-food-and-gear-packing-continues-in-kathmandu\/","title":{"rendered":"Losar holiday celebrated; Food and gear packing continues in Kathmandu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February 27, 2017<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16958\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/eric.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[16957]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16958\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16958\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/eric-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG Everest sherpa cooks packing food in Kathmandu  (Ang Jangbu)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/eric-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/eric-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/eric-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/eric-940x705.jpg 940w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/eric-620x465.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/eric-195x146.jpg 195w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/eric.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16958\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">IMG Everest sherpa cooks packing food in Kathmandu (Ang Jangbu)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Today is the Tibetan New Year holiday of Losar, celebrated by our Sherpas in Nepal.\u00c2\u00a0 Now that our airfreight shipments of food, gear, and oxygen have all arrived and been packed up, our Nepal team has been packing up the food and gear which they are purchasing locally.\u00c2\u00a0 Ang Jangbu reports that once all this local food is packed, the plan is load a truck and send all the loads by road to Phaplu this next week (Phaplu is about 80 miles east of Kathmandu, due south of the Khumbu).\u00c2\u00a0 From <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phaplu_Airport\">Phaplu<\/a> it will all be flown up to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Syangboche_Airport\">Syangboche<\/a> (3780m \/12,400ft above Namche Bazaar) by the big Russian MI-17 helicopter, and from there is goes by yaks to Everest Base Camp.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Simonson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 27, 2017 Today is the Tibetan New Year holiday of Losar, celebrated by our Sherpas in Nepal.\u00c2\u00a0 Now that our airfreight shipments of food, gear, and oxygen have all arrived and been packed up, our Nepal team has been packing up the food and gear which they are purchasing locally.\u00c2\u00a0 Ang Jangbu reports that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16957","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=16957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16959,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16957\/revisions\/16959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}