{"id":34654,"date":"2019-06-28T18:15:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T00:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/?p=34654"},"modified":"2019-06-29T12:20:19","modified_gmt":"2019-06-29T18:20:19","slug":"k2-2019-summer-season-coverage-weather-allows-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/28\/k2-2019-summer-season-coverage-weather-allows-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"K2 2019 Summer Season Coverage &#8211;  Weather Allows Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the slow start for teams to even reach their base camps, the weather relented late this week and progress was made on K2, Nanga Parbat and Broad Peak<\/p>\n<h2>K2<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/PangaeaMikeHorn\/posts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mike Horn<\/a> made progress on K2:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Back in basecamp after a successful climb to camp 1. Could not go higher due to snow conditions. Today is the first clear day so we will wait for the snow to settle and head back up this evening. It takes about 2.5 hours to get from basecamp to advanced basecamp through the icefall. It is a short trip but dangerous due to the exposure to avalanches and crevasses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/adrian.ballinger.1\/photos\/a.461120650725928\/1222905597880759\/?type=3&amp;theater&amp;comment_id=1223545174483468&amp;force_theater=1&amp;notif_t=photo_reply&amp;notif_id=1561764122050764\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adrian Ballinger<\/a> who is climbing K2 sans Os is having a bit of a stomach issue on the Blatoro:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you\u2019re gonna spend 36 hours in a tent puking and shitting and shivering your brains out, it may as well be beautiful. I can guarantee I\u2019ll never forget the Goro II camp on the trek to <a class=\"_58cn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/k2?epa=HASHTAG\" data-ft=\"{&quot;type&quot;:104,&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;*N&quot;}\">#K2<\/a>. Yesterday all I wanted was a <span class=\"_5mfr\"><span class=\"_6qdm\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the slow start for teams to even reach their base camps, the weather relented late this week and progress was made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13600,"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":"Finally, the weather allowed some progress on K2 but deep snow stopped higher progress. 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