{"id":711,"date":"2012-07-09T13:47:28","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T13:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danceonedge.com\/?p=711"},"modified":"2012-09-06T00:15:56","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T00:15:56","slug":"first-descent-of-the-mekong-river-in-tibet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/?p=711","title":{"rendered":"First Descent of the Mekong River in Tibet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCrash! Boom! Bam! Crash! Splash!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A loud noise startled us, so we looked downstream and saw a large rock avalanche crashing into the rapid \u2014 in the very spot where we had thought about lining the rafts. The avalanche also inundated one of the eddies I had thought about catching, and watching the rocks crash into the river brought back harsh memories of the Colca. The avalanche sent a very strong message to everyone else, as well, and as we hid from the rain and enjoyed a warm lunch, we all pondered how dangerous this river really was.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_428\" style=\"width: 514px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danceonedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Tibet_portage_Mekong2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-428\" class=\"size-full wp-image-428\" title=\"Tibet_portage_Mekong_First Descent\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danceonedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Tibet_portage_Mekong2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Tibet_portage_Mekong2.jpg 504w, https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Tibet_portage_Mekong2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Tibet_portage_Mekong2-398x300.jpg 398w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-428\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Intense portage through an active rockslide!<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a title=\"Escape from the Mekong\" href=\"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/?page_id=34\">https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/?page_id=34<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCrash! Boom! Bam! Crash! Splash!\u201d A loud noise startled us, so we looked downstream and saw a large rock avalanche crashing into the rapid \u2014 in the very spot where we had thought about lining the rafts. The avalanche also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/?p=711\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[207,127,117,140,116,382],"class_list":["post-711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dancing-on-the-edge","tag-adventure-books","tag-adventure-travel-books","tag-first-descent-2","tag-kayaking-adventure-stories","tag-mekong-river-2","tag-tibet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":713,"href":"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions\/713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}