{"id":4512,"date":"2011-09-02T13:41:50","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T21:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=4512"},"modified":"2011-09-02T13:42:29","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T21:42:29","slug":"its-puja-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/02\/cho-oyu\/its-puja-time\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Puja Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 2, 2011<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4513\" style=\"width: 509px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Cho-Oyu-towers-above-the-ABC-puja-alter-1.-Photo-by-Ang-Jangbu.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"lightbox[4512]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4513\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4513 \" title=\"Cho Oyu towers above the ABC puja alter. (Photo by Ang Jangbu)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Cho-Oyu-towers-above-the-ABC-puja-alter-1.-Photo-by-Ang-Jangbu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Cho-Oyu-towers-above-the-ABC-puja-alter-1.-Photo-by-Ang-Jangbu.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Cho-Oyu-towers-above-the-ABC-puja-alter-1.-Photo-by-Ang-Jangbu-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4513\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cho Oyu towers above the ABC puja alter. (Photo by Ang Jangbu)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>IMG  leader Mike Hamill reports that the Shishapangma team is doing well up at  Advanced Base Camp, with their final yak loads now having arrived.\u00c2\u00a0 Today Mike,  Kami, and Panuru took a reconaissance hike up a ways towards Camp 1, and  everyone will be hiking and\/or relaxing tomorrow.\u00c2\u00a0 Over at Cho Oyu, Ang Jangbu  reports that their final yak loads have also now arrived to ABC, and the Cho Oyu  climbers are also doing acclimatization hiking and relaxing.\u00c2\u00a0 Tomorrow they plan  to go up to Lake Camp (below Camp 1) for a day hike.<\/p>\n<p>Both  teams are doing their puja ceremonies on October 4, an auspicious day on the  Tibetan calendar. \u00c2\u00a0This is the traditional sherpa blessing ceremoney and the  official start of the climbing.\u00c2\u00a0 Both groups they plan to start working on  carrying to Camp 1 starting on Monday.\u00c2\u00a0 So far so good!<\/p>\n<p>Eric  Simonson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 2, 2011 IMG leader Mike Hamill reports that the Shishapangma team is doing well up at Advanced Base Camp, with their final yak loads now having arrived.\u00c2\u00a0 Today Mike, Kami, and Panuru took a reconaissance hike up a ways towards Camp 1, and everyone will be hiking and\/or relaxing tomorrow.\u00c2\u00a0 Over at Cho Oyu, [&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-4512","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\/4512","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=4512"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4515,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4512\/revisions\/4515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}