If I never climb again, this is the way to go out.<\/p>\n
Speaking of climbing, I will do a complete report soon but all I can say is that Imja Tse exceeded my expectations. There was more rock, more \u201cglacier\u201d and more \u201cheadwall\u201d than I anticipated. Diane already hinted at my respiratory issues and yes, once again, my lungs said no to anything above 18,000-feet. For those interested, I\u2019ll go into detail later but suffice it to say, this summit was a real \u201cpush\u201d.<\/p>\n
What drove me? Again, more later after I\u2019ve had some time to process but I\u2019ve learned in these situations to ask myself three questions:<\/p>\n
- \n
- Is this hard or impossible?<\/li>\n
- Am I hurt or just hurting?<\/li>\n
- There are a 1,000 reason to turn back and only 1 to keep going. What is the one?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
As I stood stationary, crampons dug into the snow on the headwall, I went into an out of body experience pondering these three questions. Needless to say, I took another step higher; Kami just behind. I had written in a previous blog that I had unanswered questions after my Twin Sisters event last year, as well as Lhotse in 2015.<\/p>\n
Thanks to the miracle of satellite phones, I \u201cphoned a friend”, and my wife, Diane, at key moments to seek advice and support. Without Jim, Di and of course Kami, I would not have summited. – full stop.<\/p>\n
Without getting too introspective, my life has provided me with many lessons through great and sometimes, not so great experiences. I will get to the \u201cso-what\u201d in the final trip report, however I drew upon these life lessons on Island Peak.<\/p>\n
Let me end this here and add a few pictures of the summit push.<\/p>\n
Again, thank you so so much for supporting research to prevent, slow, stop or reverse Alzheimer\u2019s. After all creating and remembering our life\u2019s experiences is what it is all about.<\/p>\n
Climb On!
\nAlan
\nMemories are Everything<\/p>\n
\nCan we break $30,000???<\/h2>\n
![\"donate](\"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/donate100alzheimersround.gif\")
<\/a><\/p>\nPlease consider a donation to wrap-up this October 2018 event. For those in the US, your donation is tax deductible as it goes directly to the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund.<\/strong><\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_3146-640x480.jpg\")
<\/a>Kami Sherpa, with whom I would not have summited Everest, K2 and Island Peak. Thanks my friend.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_3139-640x480.jpg\")
<\/a>Imja Tse Ssummit ridge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0226-640x360.jpg\")
<\/a>In honor of Ida Arnette<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0221-640x360.jpg\")
<\/a>The Cure Alzheimer’s Fund – this banner went to the summit Everest and now Island Peak. 100% for research.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0188-640x360.jpg\")
<\/a>Can I do this?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0182-640x360.jpg\")
<\/a>Sunrise as we are climbing Island Peak<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What a short journey this has been!! Kami and I summited Island Peak around 10 am on October 21, 2018 but what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":31854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"It's not over but YOU donated over $25K to the Cure Alzheimer's Fund. Kami and I summited Island Peak - it was harder than I expected.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[522],"tags":[523],"class_list":["post-31848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-island-peak-2018","tag-island-peak-2018"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0188.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31848","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=31848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}