{"id":4971,"date":"2011-10-17T11:42:15","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T19:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=4971"},"modified":"2011-10-26T11:35:22","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T19:35:22","slug":"weekend-update-from-bhutan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/17\/bhutan\/weekend-update-from-bhutan\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Update From Bhutan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 17, 2011<\/p>\n<p>IMG Partner Phil Ershler called in via sat phone throughout the weekend with updates from the Bhutan Trekking team.\u00c2\u00a0 Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a summary of what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been happening:<\/p>\n<p><strong>10\/15\/11:<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0 The group had a nice rest day at Chomolhari on Saturday. Weather was in and out, but decent overall.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10\/16\/11:<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0 Sunday, the team trekked over their first pass &#8211; Nyelela Pass, at nearly 16,000\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 &#8211; and then descended into Lingshi camp, at 13,200\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10\/17\/11:\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong> Today (Monday) was another reasonably good day.\u00c2\u00a0 After a night of camping near the village of Lingshi, the team enjoyed a hearty breakfast before making a 45 minute climb uphill to see the Lingshi Dzong.\u00c2\u00a0 The Dzong has been vacated since suffering significant damage earlier this year due to the earthquake in Sikkim.\u00c2\u00a0 After a visit to the village school, the group departed Lingshi and made their way down towards their next camp at Chebisa (12,700\u00e2\u20ac\u2122).\u00c2\u00a0 The team experienced intermittent sun, clouds and occasional rain spurts, but all in all good weather for trekking.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow will be a big day with two passes to cross \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Gobula pass and another unnamed pass with about a 3000\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 gain.\u00c2\u00a0 They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll drop some altitude as they descend to their next camp at Shomuthang, about 13,900\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.<\/p>\n<p>All is well!<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4971 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\/10\/bhutan10.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[4971]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/bhutan10-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4973\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4973'>\n\t\t\t\tPrayer flags strung across mountain pass in Bhutan (photo: Karl Lundgren)\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\/10\/Monks-in-Linghsi.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[4971]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Monks-in-Linghsi-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4975\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4975'>\n\t\t\t\tMonks in Lingshi (Photo: John Dahlem)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 17, 2011 IMG Partner Phil Ershler called in via sat phone throughout the weekend with updates from the Bhutan Trekking team.\u00c2\u00a0 Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a summary of what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been happening: 10\/15\/11:\u00c2\u00a0 The group had a nice rest day at Chomolhari on Saturday. Weather was in and out, but decent overall. 10\/16\/11:\u00c2\u00a0 Sunday, the team trekked over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bhutan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4971","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=4971"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4982,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4971\/revisions\/4982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}