{"id":1994,"date":"2014-04-30T17:49:47","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T17:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/?p=1994"},"modified":"2014-04-30T17:49:47","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T17:49:47","slug":"makalu-last-acclimatisation-climb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/en\/makalu-last-acclimatisation-climb\/","title":{"rendered":"Makalu &#8211; our last acclimatisation climb"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1996\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1996\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/00fc0914d08511e38bfb0002c954e47e_8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1996 \" alt=\"Steep slopes on Makalu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/00fc0914d08511e38bfb0002c954e47e_8-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/00fc0914d08511e38bfb0002c954e47e_8-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/00fc0914d08511e38bfb0002c954e47e_8-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/00fc0914d08511e38bfb0002c954e47e_8-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/00fc0914d08511e38bfb0002c954e47e_8-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/00fc0914d08511e38bfb0002c954e47e_8.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1996\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steeper and Steeper!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote><p>We had the summit just above our heads but strong winds and snow made us turn back.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mike and Fred climbed to 7&#8217;700m and spent a very cold evening in the tent with freezing temperatures and extremely strong winds.<\/p>\n<p>On the descent they passed sherpas who were coming up, fixing lines for other climbers &#8211; they assume the overload from climbers who have been forced away from this years climbing season on Everest.<\/p>\n<p>Mike and Fred are now back at Advanced Base Camp at 5&#8217;700m where they will have a much deserved rest. Tomorrow they will head down to\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">base camp at 4&#8217;800m where they will wait for the bad weather to pass.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We feel great, strong and well acclimatised. \u00a0As soon as we get the next good weather window \u00a0we&#8217;ll go for the summit!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had the summit just above our heads but strong winds and snow made us turn back. Mike and Fred climbed to 7&#8217;700m and spent a very cold evening in the tent with freezing temperatures and extremely strong winds. On the descent they passed sherpas who were coming up, fixing lines for other climbers &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[71,70,72,73,33,74,75,35],"class_list":["post-1994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-makalu-2","tag-acclimatised","tag-advanced-base-camp","tag-everest","tag-fred","tag-makalu","tag-mike","tag-sherpas","tag-summit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}