{"id":35207,"date":"2019-10-06T09:18:22","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T15:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/?p=35207"},"modified":"2019-10-06T20:49:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T02:49:09","slug":"autumn-2019-himalayan-season-last-climbers-abandon-everest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/06\/autumn-2019-himalayan-season-last-climbers-abandon-everest\/","title":{"rendered":"Autumn 2019 Himalayan Season: Last Climbers Abandon Everest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nirmal Purja confirmed his last climb of his Project Possible and the remaining teams on Everest leave due to the end of the season and serac dangers.<\/p>\n<h1>Everest &#8211; And Then There Were None<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/madisonmountaineering.com\/dispatches\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Madison Mountaineering<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kilianjornet.cat\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kilian Jornet<\/a>\u00a0both fearing the devasting effect of being hit by the trailer sized ice serac a few thousand feet above the Khumbu Icefall when it falls, have officially abandoned their climbs. Their Nepali logistics organizer, Iswari Paudel, Managing Director at Himalayan Guides, confirmed their decision in the <a href=\"https:\/\/thehimalayantimes.com\/nepal\/everest-lhotse-draw-blank-this-autumn-as-kilian-jornet-garrett-madison-abandon-climbing-bids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Himalayan Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Garrett told me yesterday:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yes, I think I\u2019m going to call it off tomorrow&#8230;we\u2019re running out of time. Yeah, it was a tough season with the late and heavy monsoon&#8230;plus the Serac. Just wasn\u2019t in the cards for us this time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He posted this picture<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_35194\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35194\" style=\"width: 401px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/madisonmountaineering.com\/great-weather-continues-on-everest\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-35194\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2019.10.05-The-Serac-circled-is-still-hanging-on-up-there-seems-to-be-leaning-more-every-day-but-just-hasn\u2019t-fallen-yet-768x920-401x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"401\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2019.10.05-The-Serac-circled-is-still-hanging-on-up-there-seems-to-be-leaning-more-every-day-but-just-hasn\u2019t-fallen-yet-768x920-401x480.jpg 401w, https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2019.10.05-The-Serac-circled-is-still-hanging-on-up-there-seems-to-be-leaning-more-every-day-but-just-hasn\u2019t-fallen-yet-768x920-188x225.jpg 188w, https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2019.10.05-The-Serac-circled-is-still-hanging-on-up-there-seems-to-be-leaning-more-every-day-but-just-hasn\u2019t-fallen-yet-768x920-230x276.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2019.10.05-The-Serac-circled-is-still-hanging-on-up-there-seems-to-be-leaning-more-every-day-but-just-hasn\u2019t-fallen-yet-768x920-350x419.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2019.10.05-The-Serac-circled-is-still-hanging-on-up-there-seems-to-be-leaning-more-every-day-but-just-hasn\u2019t-fallen-yet-768x920-480x575.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2019.10.05-The-Serac-circled-is-still-hanging-on-up-there-seems-to-be-leaning-more-every-day-but-just-hasn\u2019t-fallen-yet-768x920.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35194\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2019.10.05 The Serac circled is still hanging on up there seems to be leaning more every day but just hasn\u2019t fallen yet. Courtesy of Madison Mountaineering<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kilianjornet.cat\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kilian Jornet<\/a>\u00a0got higher on Everest than anyone else this season using his speed climbing to reduce the risk of being in the wrong place at the wrong time in the Icefall. He made these comments on his Twitter and Instagram feeds:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This last month I had been in Khumbu valley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nirmal Purja confirmed his last climb of his Project Possible and the remaining teams on Everest leave due to the end of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Nirmal Purja confirmed his last climb of his Project Possible and the remaining teams on Everest leave due to the end of the season and serac dangers.","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":[7,147,526],"tags":[432,521],"class_list":["post-35207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climbing-news","category-everest","category-everest-2019-coverage","tag-climbing-news","tag-everest-2019-coverage"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/12194885_10153398031223411_6444278911276842993_o.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35207","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=35207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}