{"id":18079,"date":"2017-10-23T12:54:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T20:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=18079"},"modified":"2017-10-23T12:55:27","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T20:55:27","slug":"pheriche-chukkung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2017\/10\/23\/ama-dablam\/pheriche-chukkung\/","title":{"rendered":"Pheriche &#8211;> Chukkung"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 23, 2017<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-18079 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\/2017\/10\/Chukkung-Harry-Hamlin.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[18079]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Chukkung-Harry-Hamlin-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-18080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Chukkung-Harry-Hamlin-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Chukkung-Harry-Hamlin-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Chukkung-Harry-Hamlin-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Chukkung-Harry-Hamlin-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-1-18080'>\n\t\t\t\tTrekking toward Chukkung (Harry Hamlin)\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\/2017\/10\/IMG_5854.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[18079]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_5854-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-18081\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_5854-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_5854-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_5854-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_5854-45x45.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-1-18081'>\n\t\t\t\tThe view from Chukkung. (Tye Chapman)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Harry and Austin checked in from Chukkung overnight to let us know the Team is doing great.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a nice weekend spent in Pheriche (14,340 ft), where the Team took an acclimatization hike up the ridge to get views of Ama Dablam and Lhotse, and visited the HRA clinic to hear more about altitude and signs of AMS.\u00c2\u00a0 From Pheriche, the trail becomes a bit narrower and rugged up to Chukkung, but the views keep getting better.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Team is doing great and everyone is excited to trek up Chukkung Ri in the morning,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Austin.\u00c2\u00a0 Climbing Chukkung Ri will be the final group excursion before the Teams split off and say their goodbyes.\u00c2\u00a0 In a couple days, Austin will head over to Ama Dablam Base Camp and the 3X3\/2X2 will trek over Khongma La (18,320 ft).\u00c2\u00a0 The Khongma La is the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153high road\u00e2\u20ac\u009d over to Lobuche.\u00c2\u00a0 First thing is first &#8211; Chukkung Ri tomorrow!<\/p>\n<p>All is well in Nepal.<\/p>\n<p>Greg Vernovage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 23, 2017 &nbsp; Harry and Austin checked in from Chukkung overnight to let us know the Team is doing great.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a nice weekend spent in Pheriche (14,340 ft), where the Team took an acclimatization hike up the ridge to get views of Ama Dablam and Lhotse, and visited the HRA clinic to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18081,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3-peaks-3-passes","category-ama-dablam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18079","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=18079"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18084,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18079\/revisions\/18084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}