{"id":23636,"date":"2019-10-21T15:50:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T23:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=23636"},"modified":"2019-10-21T15:50:44","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T23:50:44","slug":"weekend-update-from-the-khumbu-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2019\/10\/21\/ama-dablam\/weekend-update-from-the-khumbu-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Update from the Khumbu Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 21, 2019<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23639\" style=\"width: 1610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Pheriche-with-Ama-Dablam-Mitch-Hobbs.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[23636]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23639\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23639\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Pheriche-with-Ama-Dablam-Mitch-Hobbs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1069\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Pheriche-with-Ama-Dablam-Mitch-Hobbs.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Pheriche-with-Ama-Dablam-Mitch-Hobbs-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Pheriche-with-Ama-Dablam-Mitch-Hobbs-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Pheriche-with-Ama-Dablam-Mitch-Hobbs-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Pheriche-with-Ama-Dablam-Mitch-Hobbs-940x628.jpg 940w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Pheriche-with-Ama-Dablam-Mitch-Hobbs-620x414.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Pheriche-with-Ama-Dablam-Mitch-Hobbs-195x130.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23639\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pheriche with Ama Dablam (Mitch Hobbs)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Ama Dablam, 3X3 and Lobuche Peak teams had a good weekend in Pheriche.\u00c2\u00a0After trekking up and over the hill from Pangboche, the team settled into Pheriche (14,430\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\/4398m) for a couple days. This is a key place for acclimatization for the team. After getting settled into their rooms, the team took a short walk over to the Himalayan Rescue Association for a discussion about altitude. Sunday brought with it heavy clouds and light snow in the Pheriche and Dingboche area but the team still managed to get out for a short acclimatization hike. Tomorrow, the team will head up to Chukkung and prepare for a the climb of Chukkung Ri (18,238\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\/5558m)!<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-23636 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-large'><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\/2019\/10\/Looking-up-valley-from-Pheriche-with-Cholatse-left-and-Lobuche-right-Sonam-Dorge-Sherpa.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[23636]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"529\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Looking-up-valley-from-Pheriche-with-Cholatse-left-and-Lobuche-right-Sonam-Dorge-Sherpa-1024x576.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-23638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Looking-up-valley-from-Pheriche-with-Cholatse-left-and-Lobuche-right-Sonam-Dorge-Sherpa-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Looking-up-valley-from-Pheriche-with-Cholatse-left-and-Lobuche-right-Sonam-Dorge-Sherpa-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Looking-up-valley-from-Pheriche-with-Cholatse-left-and-Lobuche-right-Sonam-Dorge-Sherpa-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Looking-up-valley-from-Pheriche-with-Cholatse-left-and-Lobuche-right-Sonam-Dorge-Sherpa-940x529.jpg 940w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Looking-up-valley-from-Pheriche-with-Cholatse-left-and-Lobuche-right-Sonam-Dorge-Sherpa-620x349.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Looking-up-valley-from-Pheriche-with-Cholatse-left-and-Lobuche-right-Sonam-Dorge-Sherpa-195x110.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-23638'>\n\t\t\t\tLooking up valley from Pheriche with Cholatse (left) and Lobuche (right) (Sonam Dorge 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\/2019\/10\/Lobuche-Peak-from-Pheriche-Eric-Simonson.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[23636]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"627\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Lobuche-Peak-from-Pheriche-Eric-Simonson-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-23637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Lobuche-Peak-from-Pheriche-Eric-Simonson-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Lobuche-Peak-from-Pheriche-Eric-Simonson-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Lobuche-Peak-from-Pheriche-Eric-Simonson-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Lobuche-Peak-from-Pheriche-Eric-Simonson-940x627.jpg 940w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Lobuche-Peak-from-Pheriche-Eric-Simonson-620x413.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Lobuche-Peak-from-Pheriche-Eric-Simonson-195x130.jpg 195w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Lobuche-Peak-from-Pheriche-Eric-Simonson.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-23637'>\n\t\t\t\tLobuche Peak from Pheriche (Eric Simonson)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>All is well in the Khumbu Valley!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 21, 2019 The Ama Dablam, 3X3 and Lobuche Peak teams had a good weekend in Pheriche.\u00c2\u00a0After trekking up and over the hill from Pangboche, the team settled into Pheriche (14,430\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\/4398m) for a couple days. This is a key place for acclimatization for the team. After getting settled into their rooms, the team took a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,28,43,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3-peaks-3-passes","category-ama-dablam","category-lobuche","category-nepal-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23636","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=23636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23640,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23636\/revisions\/23640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}