{"id":2043,"date":"2010-11-05T08:59:30","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T16:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=2043"},"modified":"2010-11-05T09:12:15","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T17:12:15","slug":"summit-bid-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/05\/ama-dablam\/summit-bid-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"Summit Bid Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November 5, 2010<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2050\" style=\"width: 215px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Ridge-from-C2-to-summit.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"lightbox[2043]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2050\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2050 \" title=\"Ridge from C2 to summit\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Ridge-from-C2-to-summit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Ridge-from-C2-to-summit.jpg 485w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Ridge-from-C2-to-summit-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2050\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ridge from C2 to the summit. (Photo by Justin Merle)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>IMG leader Mark Allen reports form Base Camp at 15000 feet  (4600m) that the team had a couple good rest days after their practice run up to  Camp 1 at 18860 feet (5750m).\u00c2\u00a0 Now they are set to head up for the summit. \u00c2\u00a0The  weather report is good, the team is ready, and our sherpa team has done a great  job preparing the route and camps.\u00c2\u00a0 Several other teams went to the summit in  the past few days and they report that all the monsoon snow has slid off the  Dablam Glacier (above Camp 3) leaving the slopes to the summit icy and firm,  just the way we want it to be (no snow avalanche hazard).<\/p>\n<p>The plan is for the  team is to go back up to Camp 1 today, then tomorrow to push on up to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Camp 2.7\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  on the Mushroom Ridge, at about 20,500 feet (6250m). \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Camp 2.7 is between the  historic Camp 2 and Camp 3 sites, and provides an intermediate location.\u00c2\u00a0 From  there the plan would be to go to the summit on the 8<sup>th<\/sup> and back to  Camp 2, and back to Base Camp on the 9<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully the mountain  says \u00e2\u20ac\u0153yes\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to this plan.\u00c2\u00a0 We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll keep you posted!<\/p>\n<p>Eric Simonson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 5, 2010 IMG leader Mark Allen reports form Base Camp at 15000 feet (4600m) that the team had a couple good rest days after their practice run up to Camp 1 at 18860 feet (5750m).\u00c2\u00a0 Now they are set to head up for the summit. \u00c2\u00a0The weather report is good, the team is ready, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ama-dablam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043","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=2043"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2045,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043\/revisions\/2045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}