{"id":4437,"date":"2011-08-23T09:45:24","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T17:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=4437"},"modified":"2011-08-23T09:45:24","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T17:45:24","slug":"cho-oyu-shishapangma-climbers-enter-tibet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/23\/cho-oyu\/cho-oyu-shishapangma-climbers-enter-tibet\/","title":{"rendered":"Cho Oyu &#038; Shishapangma Climbers Enter Tibet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August 23, 2011<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4437 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><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\/2011\/08\/zhangmu_jr.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[4437]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/zhangmu_jr-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4440\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4440'>\n\t\t\t\tZhangmu. (Photo by John Race)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/zhangmu-street.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[4437]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/zhangmu-street-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4439\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4439'>\n\t\t\t\tZhangmu at street level.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I  talked with Jangbu a while ago, and he reports that all the members, Sherpas,  and luggage has all reached Zhangmu!\u00c2\u00a0 This is great news, and it means that  everything is proceeding on schedule.\u00c2\u00a0 Just getting to Tibet is no small feat,  and it sounds like the team had some issues en route.\u00c2\u00a0 Jangbu said the rain  started in Kathmandu and was constant all day.<\/p>\n<p>They ended up waiting three  hours at the landslide (before Kodari) before it was finally cleared.\u00c2\u00a0 After  crossing Friendship Bridge and entering Tibet, the team transferred to their  Chinese vehicles (3 trucks, 2 jeeps, 1 mini bus) and they are now all at the  hotel (about 8000 feet). Tomorrow the plan is to move on up the rugged valley to  Nyalam (about 12000 feet).<\/p>\n<p>Eric  Simonson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 23, 2011 I talked with Jangbu a while ago, and he reports that all the members, Sherpas, and luggage has all reached Zhangmu!\u00c2\u00a0 This is great news, and it means that everything is proceeding on schedule.\u00c2\u00a0 Just getting to Tibet is no small feat, and it sounds like the team had some issues en [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cho-oyu","category-shishapangma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437","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=4437"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4443,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437\/revisions\/4443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}