{"id":8001,"date":"2009-07-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/07\/10\/amarnath-yatra-s-altitude-challenges\/"},"modified":"2009-07-10T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T12:00:00","slug":"amarnath-yatra-s-altitude-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/07\/10\/amarnath-yatra-s-altitude-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Amarnath Yatra&#8217;s Altitude Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2009\/jul\/06\/hindu-pilgrims-himalayas-deaths-altitude\">www.guardian.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UK, July 7, 2009: Over 20 pilgrims from India have died in the past two weeks during the Amarnath Yatra, in Kashmir, one of the holiest pilgrimages a Hindu can make. Devotees trek to above 4,400m to reach a cave featuring a naturally formed ice Shiva Lingam.<\/p>\n<p>Up to 10 pilgrims from across south Asia also died in the past month from altitude-related illnesses near sacred Mount Kailash, in Tibet. &#8220;Because pilgrims typically ascend very rapidly by helicopter, aircraft or vehicles, they are unable to acclimatize to the altitude,&#8221; said Buddha Basnyat, the medical commission president of the International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation.<\/p>\n<p>Over 200,000 pilgrims are expected to visit the Amarnath caves this summer, but medical experts say governments are not doing enough to warn pilgrims of the dangers of high altitude. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.guardian.co.uk UK, July 7, 2009: Over 20 pilgrims from India have died in the past two weeks during the,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}