{"id":59043,"date":"2023-10-08T18:49:29","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T09:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/08\/two-die-in-avalanches-on-shishapangma-mountain-in-tibet"},"modified":"2023-10-08T18:49:29","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T09:49:29","slug":"two-die-in-avalanches-on-shishapangma-mountain-in-tibet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59043","title":{"rendered":"Two die in avalanches on Shishapangma mountain in Tibet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American climber and Nepalese guide killed in attempt to scale world\u2019s 14th tallest peak<\/p>\n<p>Avalanches have struck the slopes of the Tibetan mountain Shishapangma as more than 50 climbers were making a push for the summit, killing an American and Nepalese mountaineer, China\u2019s state-run Xinhua news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>Shishapangma, at just over 8,000 metres (26,247ft), is the world\u2019s 14th tallest peak. It is widely regarded as one of the least difficult mountains of that height, known among climbers as the \u201ceight-thousanders\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/08\/two-die-in-avalanches-on-shishapangma-mountain-in-tibet\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American climber and Nepalese guide killed in attempt to scale world\u2019s 14th tallest peakAvalanches have struck the slopes of the Tibetan mountain Shishapangma as more than 50 climbers were making a push for the summit, killing an American and Nepalese &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1058,609,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avalanches","category-tibet","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59043"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59056,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59043\/revisions\/59056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}