{"id":8356,"date":"2012-10-29T08:07:20","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T16:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=8356"},"modified":"2012-10-29T08:07:20","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T16:07:20","slug":"chulu-climbers-cross-thorung-la-descend-to-muktinath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/29\/annapurna-trek-chulu-climb\/chulu-climbers-cross-thorung-la-descend-to-muktinath\/","title":{"rendered":"Chulu Climbers Cross Thorung La &#038; Descend To Muktinath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 29, 2012<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8357\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Annapurnas-003.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[8356]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8357\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-8357\" title=\"Thorung Pass (Jacqueline Brill)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Annapurnas-003-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8357\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thorung Pass (Jacqueline Brill)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>IMG guide Justin Merle reports that the team made a 4AM start from their camp above Phedi and were able to get across the Thorung La (17,769 feet \/ 5,416 m) in good shape.\u00c2\u00a0 Weather was good and they enjoyed great views north towards Tibet, south toward the Annapurnas, and east toward Dhaulagiri.\u00c2\u00a0 After crossing the pass, they descended to the ancient village of Muktinath (about 12,000 feet), which is one of the holiest places for both Hindus and Buddhists with many pilgrims coming here every year.\u00c2\u00a0 Tomorrow the team will visit the local temple and explore the area.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Simonson<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 29, 2012 IMG guide Justin Merle reports that the team made a 4AM start from their camp above Phedi and were able to get across the Thorung La (17,769 feet \/ 5,416 m) in good shape.\u00c2\u00a0 Weather was good and they enjoyed great views north towards Tibet, south toward the Annapurnas, and east toward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annapurna-trek-chulu-climb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8356","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=8356"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8361,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8356\/revisions\/8361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}