{"id":2663,"date":"2017-05-27T00:31:35","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T05:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2663"},"modified":"2017-05-27T00:31:35","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T05:31:35","slug":"everest-2014-season-summary-a-nepal-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2663","title":{"rendered":"Everest 2014: Season Summary &#8211; A Nepal Tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>If you need a chair at 21,000\u2019, carry your own damn chair. If you paid $100,000 and expect a chair and table at Camp 2, you don\u2019t belong on Everest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/09\/everest-2014-season-summary-nepal-tragedy\/\">Everest 2014: Season Summary &#8211; A Nepal Tragedy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The <strong>Operators<\/strong> need to stop the silliness associated with attracting clients \u2013 no more helicopters for clients in and out of base camp.\u00a0 Stop the 5 Star European chefs and sushi. Stop telling people it is an \u201ceasy climb\u201d. Stop giving so much support. Cut back on the oxygen. Be stricter with whom can be your client. Just because you summited Everest 5 times, doesn\u2019t mean you should accept a client who has only managed a trekking peak. No chairs at Camp 2!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More interesting stories about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/everest\/everest.php\">climbing Mt. Everest here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you need a chair at 21,000\u2019, carry your own damn chair. If you paid $100,000 and expect a chair and table at Camp 2, you don\u2019t belong on Everest. via Everest 2014: Season Summary &#8211; A Nepal Tragedy. The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2663\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[100],"class_list":["post-2663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting","tag-mountain-climbing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2663"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2667,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663\/revisions\/2667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}