{"id":19946,"date":"2018-08-30T11:00:49","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T19:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=19946"},"modified":"2018-08-30T11:04:18","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T19:04:18","slug":"cho-oyu-sherpa-team-makes-it-to-the-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2018\/08\/30\/cho-oyu\/cho-oyu-sherpa-team-makes-it-to-the-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Cho Oyu Sherpa Team Makes It To The Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August 30, 2018<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-19946 gallery-columns-4 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\/2018\/08\/Shuttling-gear-through-a-road-closure-on-the-way-to-the-border-Phunuru-Sherpa.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[19946]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Shuttling-gear-through-a-road-closure-on-the-way-to-the-border-Phunuru-Sherpa-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-19947\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Shuttling-gear-through-a-road-closure-on-the-way-to-the-border-Phunuru-Sherpa-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Shuttling-gear-through-a-road-closure-on-the-way-to-the-border-Phunuru-Sherpa-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Shuttling-gear-through-a-road-closure-on-the-way-to-the-border-Phunuru-Sherpa-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Shuttling-gear-through-a-road-closure-on-the-way-to-the-border-Phunuru-Sherpa-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-1-19947'>\n\t\t\t\tShuttling gear through a road closure on the way to the border (Phunuru Sherpa)\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\/2018\/08\/Road-washout-en-route-to-border-Phunuru-Sherpa.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[19946]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Road-washout-en-route-to-border-Phunuru-Sherpa-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-19948\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Road-washout-en-route-to-border-Phunuru-Sherpa-150x150.jpg 150w, 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src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_4791-e1535655191778-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-19951\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_4791-e1535655191778-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_4791-e1535655191778-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_4791-e1535655191778-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_4791-e1535655191778-45x45.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-1-19951'>\n\t\t\t\tBoudhanath Stupa (Dallas Glass)\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\/2018\/08\/IMG_4810.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[19946]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_4810-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-19950\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_4810-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_4810-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_4810-768x767.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_4810-1024x1022.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_4810-940x938.jpg 940w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_4810-620x619.jpg 620w, 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He reports: &#8220;The road is not as bad as we thought.\u00c2\u00a0 We left Kathmandu at 5:00am and reached Dhunche by 11:45am for lunch.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>After waiting for some time at a landslide near Dhunche, Phunuru and the Sherpa team shuttled our loads across the washout, with the help of some local porters. It took the Sherpa and Porters only an hour and a half to get all the expedition gear transported.\u00c2\u00a0 A couple more hours by truck and the advanced team arrived at Ghate Khola.<\/p>\n<p>Phunuru is optimistic that Dallas and the climbing team will be able to make good time to the border after they receive their visas.\u00c2\u00a0 Back in Kathmandu, the team had a great day visiting the sights.\u00c2\u00a0 The team made their way to Boudhanath Stupa and the Monkey Temple.<\/p>\n<p>Great day in Nepal!<\/p>\n<p>Greg Vernovage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 30, 2018 Phunuru checked in overnight with great news from Ghate Khola, which is just a 10-minute walk to the Tibet border. He reports: &#8220;The road is not as bad as we thought.\u00c2\u00a0 We left Kathmandu at 5:00am and reached Dhunche by 11:45am for lunch.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d After waiting for some time at a landslide near [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19946","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\/19946","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=19946"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19964,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19946\/revisions\/19964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}