{"id":26786,"date":"2023-03-29T09:11:36","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T17:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=26786"},"modified":"2023-03-29T09:11:36","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T17:11:36","slug":"time-to-start-trekking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2023\/03\/29\/everest\/time-to-start-trekking\/","title":{"rendered":"Time To Start Trekking!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 29, 2023 &#8211; IMG guides Max and Phunuru report that Team 1 successfully flew by helicopter to Lukla today, and then trekked to Phakding. This is a lovely 4 hour trek, mostly downhill, to the banks of the Dudh Kosi River. After traveling halfway around the world and doing the duffel shuffle for several days, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s great to finally hit the trail and get the legs working!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_26787\" style=\"width: 2570px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Loading-up-the-heli-in-Kathmandu-Phunuru-Sherpa-scaled.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[26786]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26787\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26787\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Loading-up-the-heli-in-Kathmandu-Phunuru-Sherpa-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Loading-up-the-heli-in-Kathmandu-Phunuru-Sherpa-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Loading-up-the-heli-in-Kathmandu-Phunuru-Sherpa-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Loading-up-the-heli-in-Kathmandu-Phunuru-Sherpa-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Loading-up-the-heli-in-Kathmandu-Phunuru-Sherpa-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Loading-up-the-heli-in-Kathmandu-Phunuru-Sherpa-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Loading-up-the-heli-in-Kathmandu-Phunuru-Sherpa-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Loading-up-the-heli-in-Kathmandu-Phunuru-Sherpa-940x705.jpg 940w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Loading-up-the-heli-in-Kathmandu-Phunuru-Sherpa-620x465.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Loading-up-the-heli-in-Kathmandu-Phunuru-Sherpa-195x146.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26787\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Loading up the heli in Kathmandu (Phunuru Sherpa)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_26788\" style=\"width: 2570px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Team-1-in-Lukla-ready-to-hit-the-trail-Phunuru-Sherpa-scaled.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[26786]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26788\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26788\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Team-1-in-Lukla-ready-to-hit-the-trail-Phunuru-Sherpa-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Team-1-in-Lukla-ready-to-hit-the-trail-Phunuru-Sherpa-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Team-1-in-Lukla-ready-to-hit-the-trail-Phunuru-Sherpa-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Team-1-in-Lukla-ready-to-hit-the-trail-Phunuru-Sherpa-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Team-1-in-Lukla-ready-to-hit-the-trail-Phunuru-Sherpa-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Team-1-in-Lukla-ready-to-hit-the-trail-Phunuru-Sherpa-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Team-1-in-Lukla-ready-to-hit-the-trail-Phunuru-Sherpa-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Team-1-in-Lukla-ready-to-hit-the-trail-Phunuru-Sherpa-940x705.jpg 940w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Team-1-in-Lukla-ready-to-hit-the-trail-Phunuru-Sherpa-620x465.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Team-1-in-Lukla-ready-to-hit-the-trail-Phunuru-Sherpa-195x146.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26788\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Team 1 in Lukla ready to hit the trail (Phunuru Sherpa)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Back in Kathmandu, Ang Jangbu reports that Team 2 members have begun arriving. So far so good!<\/p>\n<p>Eric Simonson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 29, 2023 &#8211; IMG guides Max and Phunuru report that Team 1 successfully flew by helicopter to Lukla today, and then trekked to Phakding. This is a lovely 4 hour trek, mostly downhill, to the banks of the Dudh Kosi River. After traveling halfway around the world and doing the duffel shuffle for several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26786","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=26786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26789,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26786\/revisions\/26789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}