{"id":4451,"date":"2011-08-24T08:41:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T16:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=4451"},"modified":"2011-08-24T08:41:57","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T16:41:57","slug":"cho-oyu-and-shishapangma-climbers-reach-nyalam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/24\/cho-oyu\/cho-oyu-and-shishapangma-climbers-reach-nyalam\/","title":{"rendered":"Cho Oyu And Shishapangma Climbers Reach Nyalam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August 24, 2011<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4451 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-road_jr.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[4451]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/zhangmu-road_jr-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4453\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4453'>\n\t\t\t\tRoad up the gorge between Zhangmu and Nyalam (photo by John Race)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><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\/nyalam.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[4451]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/nyalam-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4452\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4452'>\n\t\t\t\tNyalam, Tibet (photo by Mike Hamill)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Ang  Jangbu reports that the team successfully drove up the rugged Bhote Kosi gorge  and have now reached Nyalam (a little over 12000 feet). Tomorrow he will send  four Shishapangma sherpas to Shishapangma BC and eight of the Cho Oyu sherpas on  to Cho Oyu BC, to start getting those camps set up. The sherpas\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 route will take  them over the 17,000+ foot Tsong La pass, which marks the beginning of the  Tibetan Plateau (Nyalam is still on the south side of the crest).<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,  the Cho Oyu and Shishapangma team members, and a couple sherpas who are staying  back with them, will do further acclimatization hiking tomorrow up the nearby  ridges that overlook Nyalam.\u00c2\u00a0 The plan for the team will be to go on to Tingri  the following day.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Because Tibet is so high, we want to make sure everyone is  well acclimatized before going to the Base Camps.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Simonson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 24, 2011 Ang Jangbu reports that the team successfully drove up the rugged Bhote Kosi gorge and have now reached Nyalam (a little over 12000 feet). Tomorrow he will send four Shishapangma sherpas to Shishapangma BC and eight of the Cho Oyu sherpas on to Cho Oyu BC, to start getting those camps set [&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-4451","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\/4451","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=4451"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4458,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451\/revisions\/4458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}