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\n\t\t<\/div>\n\nDown in Lukla, IMG guide Porter McMichael and his team of Mera\/Ama Dablam\/and Everest\/Lhotse climbers had a nice acclimatization hike up to Chautanga village (11,600 ft) which is on the way to the Zwatra La pass that goes to Hinku Valley.\u00a0 This is a great hike, departing busy Lukla and within just a few minutes finding a whole different landscape with no trekkers, lots of rhododendrons in bloom and small farms. Tomorrow the team will save themselves the stiff hike up and over Zwatra La, and will instead fly by helicopter direct to Khote in Hinku Valley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
April 12, 2024 Phunuru reports from Base Camp that the Everest team had a nice puja yesterday.\u00a0 The lama from Pangboche came up to officiate, and the weather was favorable. This ceremony is important to the Sherpas for good luck on the mountain, and for the foreign climbers it\u2019s a fun way to kick off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27884,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,2,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everest","category-img-news","category-mera-peak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27883","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=27883"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27889,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27883\/revisions\/27889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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