{"id":4484,"date":"2011-08-29T07:48:06","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T15:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=4484"},"modified":"2011-08-29T07:48:06","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T15:48:06","slug":"cho-oyu-and-shishapangma-climbers-reach-base-camps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/29\/cho-oyu\/cho-oyu-and-shishapangma-climbers-reach-base-camps\/","title":{"rendered":"Cho Oyu And Shishapangma Climbers Reach Base Camps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August 28, 2011<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4484 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\/Shishapangma-from-Tsong-La.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[4484]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Shishapangma-from-Tsong-La-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4485\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4485'>\n\t\t\t\tShishapangma from Tsong La pass\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\/bc2010.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[4484]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/bc2010-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4486\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4486'>\n\t\t\t\tCho Oyu from Base Camp  \n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>IMG  Leaders Craig John, Mike Hamill, and Ang Jangbu report that after two nights in Tingri (14000+ feet) and a good day of  acclimatization hiking yesterday to over 15000 feet, the two IMG teams have now  officially split and headed for their Base Camps!<\/p>\n<p>For Mike Hamill and the  Shishapangma climbers, they backtracked a bit towards Nyalam before splitting  off the Lhasa-Kathmandu road to drive further west with their jeeps and truck.\u00c2\u00a0  For the Cho Oyu climbers, they drove due north from Tingri for less than an hour  to their Base Camp site.\u00c2\u00a0 Both the Base Camps are at about 15000 feet. \u00c2\u00a0Ang  Jangbu reports that the Cho Oyu team has 30 yaks (and yak drivers) arriving to  BC tomorrow, and that the next day they will all head for ABC with 3-4 sherpas  to start working on that camp.\u00c2\u00a0 For the Cho Oyu team members, their plan is to  take three nights at BC (acclimatization hiking each day) before moving up to IC  (Interim Camp) on the 31<sup>st<\/sup> and to ABC on September 1<sup>st<\/sup>.\u00c2\u00a0  The Shishapangma team is on a similar schedule.<\/p>\n<p>For both the Cho Oyu and  Shishapangma teams, their  ABC\u00c2\u00a0camps are well over 18000 feet, so it is important  to be well acclimatized before moving up there.<\/p>\n<p>So far so  good!<\/p>\n<p>Eric  Simonson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 28, 2011 IMG Leaders Craig John, Mike Hamill, and Ang Jangbu report that after two nights in Tingri (14000+ feet) and a good day of acclimatization hiking yesterday to over 15000 feet, the two IMG teams have now officially split and headed for their Base Camps! For Mike Hamill and the Shishapangma climbers, they [&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-4484","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\/4484","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=4484"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4490,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484\/revisions\/4490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}