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It is always nice to fill up on good food before heading up the mountain, and this evening head cook Kaji and assistant cook Purna prepared a special steak and gravy dinner with all the trimmings for the departing climbers.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Our first group of climbers will be leaving Base Camp in the early morning hours tomorrow for their climb up the Icefall to Camp 1, and then up to Camp 2 the following day. \u00c2\u00a0The second group will be leaving the following day.<\/p>\n
It is getting exciting for the IMG Team on Mount Everest!<\/p>\n
Greg Vernovage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
May 14, 2021 Expedition Leader Jonathan Schrock checked in from EBC to let us know that we are prepped and ready to begin the summit rotations.\u00c2\u00a0 The IMG climbers have packed their food, done their final practice with the oxygen masks, and had their final meetings about the plans.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0The weather reports are improving in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,69,182,21,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everest","category-everest-trekking","category-khumbu-valley","category-lhotse","category-lobuche"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25000","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=25000"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25007,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25000\/revisions\/25007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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