{"id":74674,"date":"2025-10-10T10:26:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T01:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/10\/hikers-trapped-rescued-everest-survival-stories"},"modified":"2025-10-10T10:26:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T01:26:33","slug":"non-stop-snow-instant-noodles-and-yaks-tales-of-being-trapped-on-everest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74674","title":{"rendered":"Non-stop snow, instant noodles and yaks: tales of being trapped on Everest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 1,000 people were stuck in mountain hiking areas for days, sparking extensive rescue efforts by local authorities and villagers<\/p>\n<p>The weather wasn\u2019t great. A bit drizzly and cold. But about 1,000 people steeled themselves on Mount Everest\u2019s eastern flank to spend the national day long weekend trekking.<\/p>\n<p>As he led the group along the path lined with stunning icy peaks, 32-year-old guide Shu Wei felt increasingly uneasy. He knew the weather on the mountains could be unpredictable and dangerous, but this snowfall was something else.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/10\/hikers-trapped-rescued-everest-survival-stories\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 1,000 people were stuck in mountain hiking areas for days, sparking extensive rescue efforts by local authorities and villagersThe weather wasn\u2019t great. A bit drizzly and cold. But about 1,000 people steeled themselves on Mount Everest\u2019s east&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,50,608,239,241,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-mount-everest","category-mountaineering","category-nepal","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\/74674","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74674"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74685,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74674\/revisions\/74685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}