{"id":4760,"date":"2011-09-28T09:04:48","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T17:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=4760"},"modified":"2011-09-28T09:05:12","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T17:05:12","slug":"snow-ends-still-windy-for-climbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/28\/cho-oyu\/snow-ends-still-windy-for-climbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow Ends, Still Windy For Climbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">September 27, 2011<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4761\" style=\"width: 507px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/satimage.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"lightbox[4760]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4761\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4761  \" title=\"Satellite Image Nepal\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/satimage-1024x496.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"239\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4761\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The storms have finally moved to the east and now the skies are clear.  However, we still have some strong winds. (Courtesy Gov of Nepal Meteorological Forecasting Division) <\/p><\/div>\n<p>I  spoke to IMG guides Mike Hamill on Shishapangma and Max Bunce on Cho Oyu.\u00c2\u00a0 The  big snowstorm has ended, but it remains windy, so there is lots of snow getting  scoured from the upper slopes.\u00c2\u00a0 The team members are waiting to see if the  conditions improve.\u00c2\u00a0 Our forecast has the jet stream staying away for another  week or so, so there may still be a window for climbers.<\/p>\n<p>Some  of the climbers (from both teams) headed back to Kathmandu today.\u00c2\u00a0 They had  commitments back home and could not wait longer.\u00c2\u00a0 For the climbers who are  remaining, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be hoping the conditions stabilize soon.<\/p>\n<p>Eric  Simonson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 27, 2011 I spoke to IMG guides Mike Hamill on Shishapangma and Max Bunce on Cho Oyu.\u00c2\u00a0 The big snowstorm has ended, but it remains windy, so there is lots of snow getting scoured from the upper slopes.\u00c2\u00a0 The team members are waiting to see if the conditions improve.\u00c2\u00a0 Our forecast has the jet [&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-4760","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\/4760","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=4760"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4767,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4760\/revisions\/4767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}