{"id":4998,"date":"2011-10-19T11:39:43","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T19:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=4998"},"modified":"2011-10-19T14:15:41","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T22:15:41","slug":"nepal-teams-making-good-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/19\/ama-dablam\/nepal-teams-making-good-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal Teams Making Good Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 19, 2011<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4998 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\/Looking-up-the-valley-at-Lobuche-Peak-from-Pheriche-Eric-Simonson.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[4998]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Looking-up-the-valley-at-Lobuche-Peak-from-Pheriche-Eric-Simonson-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4999\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4999'>\n\t\t\t\tLooking up the valley at Lobuche Peak from Pheriche.  (Photo by Eric Simonson)\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\/Annapurna-III.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[4998]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Annapurna-III-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-5000\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-5000'>\n\t\t\t\tAnnapurna III. (Photo by Eric Simonson)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>We heard overnight from both Justin Merle and his EBC\/Lobuch\/Ama Dablam team,\u00c2\u00a0 and Eben Reckord and the Annapurna team, and it sounds like everyone is doing well!<\/p>\n<p>Justin says his team had a good hike today from Deboche to Pangboche, where they visited Lama Geshe at the monastery.\u00c2\u00a0 After lunch, they pushed on up to Pheriche (about 14,000 feet), where they are now.\u00c2\u00a0 Tomorrow they will take another acclimatization day, and do some hiking in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Eben and the Annapurna and Chulu team headed up past Manang today, and had great views of Annapurna II and Gangapurna along the way.\u00c2\u00a0 They made it to Yak Kharka (about 13,200 feet) where the sherpas have a nice camp set up.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow they will also take an acclimatization day, and do some hiking in the area.\u00c2\u00a0 Today the team had their first good view of Chulu Peak, and Eben says it looks big!\u00c2\u00a0 Today they also sent Mingma Dorje up to Annapurna 4 base camp with his camera, and he took 200 photos along the way and then caught up with the team at Yak Kharka!\u00c2\u00a0 We wanted to get some good new shots for our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/annapurna4.shtml\">Annapurna IV<\/a> trip next spring, so we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll look forward to seeing his photography.<\/p>\n<p>So far, so good!<\/p>\n<p>Eric Simonson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 19, 2011 We heard overnight from both Justin Merle and his EBC\/Lobuch\/Ama Dablam team,\u00c2\u00a0 and Eben Reckord and the Annapurna team, and it sounds like everyone is doing well! Justin says his team had a good hike today from Deboche to Pangboche, where they visited Lama Geshe at the monastery.\u00c2\u00a0 After lunch, they pushed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ama-dablam","category-annapurna-trek-chulu-climb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4998","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=4998"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5003,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4998\/revisions\/5003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}