{"id":1697,"date":"2017-05-11T14:00:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T14:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tgwhfonline.ca\/tyl\/blog\/?p=1697"},"modified":"2017-05-11T14:00:38","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T14:00:38","slug":"almost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/2017\/05\/11\/almost\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We almost saw Everest. We cycled up to Rongbuk. Unfortunately Everest isn&#8217;t on our agenda. She&#8217;s playing coy. While in Rongbuk waiting for her to show herself we visited the Rong La monastery. We had our prayer beads blessed. We also hung out in the small hotel and had ginger, lemon, honey tea. Met some travellers from Brazil on a tour (also disappointed at not seeing Everest).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Total km 40<br \/>\nMax speed\u00a056.5<br \/>\nAvg. 12.5<br \/>\nAltitude gained\u00a0434m<br \/>\nAltitude lost 434m<br \/>\nCal 1900<br \/>\nPeak altitude 5009m<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1700\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1700\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tgwhfonline.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Checkpointenroute-e1494511106446.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1700\" src=\"https:\/\/tgwhfonline.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Checkpointenroute-e1494511106446-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Checkpointenroute-e1494511106446-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Checkpointenroute-e1494511106446.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1700\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Check point en route.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1702\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1702\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tgwhfonline.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Signage-e1494511136604.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1702\" src=\"https:\/\/tgwhfonline.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Signage-e1494511136604-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Signage-e1494511136604-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Signage-e1494511136604.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1702\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signage.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We had sheep, Yak, hail and snow on today&#8217;s ride. The hail was particularly nasty. After giving up on seeing the majestic beauty we crashed in camp for cards and stories. Tomorrow we ride to Everest Base Camp!!! Let&#8217;s hope she loosens her robes a little and gives us a peak!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1703\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1703\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tgwhfonline.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Welcome.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1703\" src=\"https:\/\/tgwhfonline.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Welcome-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Welcome-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Welcome.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1703\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Welcome.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>PS. VR your chocolate has been lifesaving. Team says a huge thanks. I can&#8217;t believe I shared!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We almost saw Everest. We cycled up to Rongbuk. Unfortunately Everest isn&#8217;t on our agenda. She&#8217;s playing coy. While in Rongbuk waiting for her to show herself we visited the Rong La monastery. We had our prayer beads blessed. We also hung out in the small hotel and had ginger, lemon, honey tea. Met some &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/2017\/05\/11\/almost\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Almost&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-2017-category"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1704,"href":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions\/1704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}