{"id":23649,"date":"2019-10-24T07:57:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T15:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=23649"},"modified":"2019-10-24T07:57:34","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T15:57:34","slug":"all-smiles-in-the-khumbu-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2019\/10\/24\/ama-dablam\/all-smiles-in-the-khumbu-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"All Smiles In The Khumbu Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 24, 2019<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23650\" style=\"width: 1290px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/All-smiles-in-Chukkung-Pasang-Tsering.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[23649]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23650\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23650\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/All-smiles-in-Chukkung-Pasang-Tsering.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/All-smiles-in-Chukkung-Pasang-Tsering.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/All-smiles-in-Chukkung-Pasang-Tsering-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/All-smiles-in-Chukkung-Pasang-Tsering-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/All-smiles-in-Chukkung-Pasang-Tsering-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/All-smiles-in-Chukkung-Pasang-Tsering-940x529.jpg 940w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/All-smiles-in-Chukkung-Pasang-Tsering-620x349.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/All-smiles-in-Chukkung-Pasang-Tsering-195x110.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23650\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">All smiles in Chukkung (Pasang Tsering)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We heard from the teams in the Khumbu Valley overnight.\u00c2\u00a0 After climbing Chukkung Ri yesterday, it was time for the 3 teams to start splitting up. The Ama Dablam Team was up and out the door early this morning from Chukkung taking the high trail to Ama Dablam Base Camp. The trek to Base Camp took about 5 hours and all were welcomed by Phunuru. Every one is doing well and it is now time to reacquaint themselves with their climbing duffle and move into their tent.<\/p>\n<p>The 3X3 and Lobuche Peak climbing Teams took a rest day in Chukkung today in preparation for a big day tomorrow.\u00c2\u00a0 The team will be up early to head across the Khongma La (pass) (18,320\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\/5583m).\u00c2\u00a0 It is a steady climb uphill from Chukkung before reaching the high point and then dropping into the non-technical section of the lower Khumbu Glacier.\u00c2\u00a0 After crossing the glacier, the team will pop out at Lobuche Village. This is a long but rewarding trek with beautiful scenery.<\/p>\n<p>All is well in the Khumbu Valley!<\/p>\n<p>Greg Vernovage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 24, 2019 We heard from the teams in the Khumbu Valley overnight.\u00c2\u00a0 After climbing Chukkung Ri yesterday, it was time for the 3 teams to start splitting up. The Ama Dablam Team was up and out the door early this morning from Chukkung taking the high trail to Ama Dablam Base Camp. The trek [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,28,182,43,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3-peaks-3-passes","category-ama-dablam","category-khumbu-valley","category-lobuche","category-nepal-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23649","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=23649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23651,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23649\/revisions\/23651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}