{"id":19945,"date":"2014-07-01T22:19:58","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T04:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/?p=19945"},"modified":"2014-07-01T22:33:32","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T04:33:32","slug":"k2-wheels-to-askole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/01\/k2-wheels-to-askole\/","title":{"rendered":"K2: Wheels to Askole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_1028.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-19946\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_1028-225x169.jpg\" alt=\"FJ to Aksole\" width=\"225\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_1028-225x169.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_1028-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_1028-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_1028-900x675.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>We are about to leave Skardu for the &#8220;end of the road&#8221; at Askole. There we will hire somewhere over 150 or more Balti porters to carry our gear to K2 Base Camp &#8211; and this is just part of the overall load &#8211; one way!<\/p>\n<p>But first we take these souped up Land Cruisers and Jeeps over a road that would be named a trail anywhere else in the world following parts of the Ingus River.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the FJs have been in use for over 30 years. They are &#8220;toughened&#8221; with heavy duty coils,     shocks,     suspension and special air filters.<\/p>\n<p>I think I need to drop by their shop and see if they can upgrade me!!<\/p>\n<p>Climb On!<br \/>\nAlan<br \/>\nMemories are Everything<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 960px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-19945-1\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Jeep.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Jeep.mp4\">http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Jeep.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are about to leave Skardu for the &#8220;end of the road&#8221; at Askole. There we will hire somewhere over 150 or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[405],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-k2-2014"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}