{"id":4876,"date":"2018-10-14T10:37:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T06:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=4876"},"modified":"2018-10-14T10:37:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T06:37:16","slug":"how-amazon-delivers-in-the-himalayas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2018\/10\/14\/how-amazon-delivers-in-the-himalayas\/","title":{"rendered":"How Amazon delivers in the Himalayas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Leh is nestled high in the Indian Himalayas at a dizzying altitude of 3,500m. But even the world\u2019s tallest mountain range can\u2019t prevent global e-commerce from reaching its doorsteps.<\/p>\n<p>Eshay Rangdol used to work as a trekking guide in the region, but when Amazon opened a branch in Leh last year, he jumped at the chance to switch careers.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s now a delivery driver for the retail giant, navigating winding roads, low temperatures and a lack of house numbers to bring packages to the region<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video below:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 618px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-4876-1\" width=\"618\" height=\"348\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/The_man_who_delivers_to_monks-p06nljjz.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/The_man_who_delivers_to_monks-p06nljjz.mp4\">http:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/The_man_who_delivers_to_monks-p06nljjz.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Leh is nestled high in the Indian Himalayas at a dizzying altitude of 3,500m. But even the world\u2019s tallest mountain range can\u2019t prevent global e-commerce from reaching its doorsteps. Eshay Rangdol used to work as a trekking guide in the region, but when Amazon opened a branch in Leh last year, he &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4877,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4883,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4876\/revisions\/4883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}