{"id":38588,"date":"2021-03-15T05:58:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T11:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/?p=38588"},"modified":"2021-04-02T11:42:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T17:42:50","slug":"everest-2021-video-interview-with-lukas-furtenbach-of-furtenbach-adventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/15\/everest-2021-video-interview-with-lukas-furtenbach-of-furtenbach-adventures\/","title":{"rendered":"Everest 2021: Video Interview with Lukas Furtenbach of Furtenbach Adventures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Everest 2021 season is about a month away and operators are busy buying, packing, and preparing for a safe season. This year, only the Nepal side will be climbed since China closed their side due to COVID.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I reached out to Lukas Furtenbach, of Austrian-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furtenbachadventures.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Furtenbach Adventures<\/a> to discuss the season. We covered a lot of topics but dug deeply into his impressive use of technology to keep his clients safe. We covered:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Preparing for the upcoming season<\/li>\n<li>Status climbing in Tibet this spring and autumn<\/li>\n<li>Furtenbach&#8217;s COVID safety plans for EBC and high camps<\/li>\n<li>How you are using advanced technology\n<ul>\n<li>altitude tents for pre-acclimatization<\/li>\n<li>oxygen delivery<\/li>\n<li>Biometric tracking<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">You can follow their climb on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/furtenbachadventures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/furtenbachadventures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FAexploring\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>. I will be covering Lukas and all the action on\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/everest\/everest-2021-coverage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Everest<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0this spring on my\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/everest\/everest-2021-coverage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Blog<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>\u00a0Interview with Lukas Furtenbach of Furtenbach Adventures<\/h2>\n<div id=\"kgvid_kgvid_0_wrapper\" class=\"kgvid_wrapper kgvid_wrapper_auto_left kgvid_wrapper_auto_right\">\n\t\t\t<div id=\"video_kgvid_0_div\" class=\"fitvidsignore kgvid_videodiv\" data-id=\"kgvid_0\" data-kgvid_video_vars=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;kgvid_0&quot;,&quot;attachment_id&quot;:0,&quot;player_type&quot;:&quot;Video.js v8&quot;,&quot;width&quot;:&quot;640&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:&quot;360&quot;,&quot;fullwidth&quot;:&quot;true&quot;,&quot;fixed_aspect&quot;:&quot;vertical&quot;,&quot;countable&quot;:false,&quot;count_views&quot;:&quot;start_complete&quot;,&quot;start&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;autoplay&quot;:&quot;false&quot;,&quot;pauseothervideos&quot;:&quot;true&quot;,&quot;set_volume&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;muted&quot;:&quot;false&quot;,&quot;meta&quot;:true,&quot;endofvideooverlay&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.alanarnette.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2016\\\/12\\\/summitcoach-e1483568572550.jpg&quot;,&quot;resize&quot;:&quot;true&quot;,&quot;auto_res&quot;:&quot;automatic&quot;,&quot;pixel_ratio&quot;:&quot;true&quot;,&quot;right_click&quot;:false,&quot;playback_rate&quot;:&quot;true&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Lukas%20Furtenbach%20Everest%202021.mp4&quot;,&quot;skip_buttons&quot;:[],&quot;nativecontrolsfortouch&quot;:&quot;true&quot;,&quot;locale&quot;:&quot;en&quot;,&quot;enable_resolutions_plugin&quot;:false}\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/csm_lukas_2ed6d8f54f.jpg\"><meta itemprop=\"embedUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Lukas%20Furtenbach%20Everest%202021.mp4\"><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Lukas%20Furtenbach%20Everest%202021.mp4\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Lukas%20Furtenbach%20Everest%202021.mp4\"><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Video\"><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-03-15T05:58:16-06:00\">\n\t\t\t\t<video id=\"video_kgvid_0\" playsinline controls preload=\"metadata\" poster=\"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/csm_lukas_2ed6d8f54f.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"fitvidsignore video-js kg-video-js-skin\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<source src=\"https:\/\/alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Lukas%20Furtenbach%20Everest%202021.mp4?id=0\" type=\"video\/mp4\" data-res=\"Full\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/video>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div style=\"display:none\" id=\"video_kgvid_0_meta\" class=\"kgvid_video_meta kgvid_video_meta_hover kgvid_no_title_meta\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class='kgvid_meta_icons'><\/span><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>Thanks, Lukas for an informative and always fun interview.<\/p>\n<p>Climb On!<br \/>\nAlan<br \/>\nMemories are Everything<\/p>\n<h2>The Podcast on alanarnette.com<\/h2>\n<p>You can listen to #everest2021\u00a0<strong>podcasts<\/strong>\u00a0on <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/2uu2RcE9WiFKzSGl50oFKY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spotify<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-podcast-on-alanarnette-com\/id1567287947\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple Podcast<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breaker.audio\/the-podcast-on-alanarnette-dot-com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breaker<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy81MTc3MjdlYy9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Podcasts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pca.st\/otq8ztfv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pocket Casts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/radiopublic.com\/the-podcast-on-alanarnettecom-G2R7r0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RadioPublic<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/alan-arnette1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anchor<\/a>, and more. Just search for &#8220;alan arnette&#8221; on your favorite podcast platform.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this Everest 2021 interview with Lukas Furtenbach, operating on the Nepal side, we cover his advanced use of technology, how he will manage his team given COVID and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":27919,"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,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"In this #everest2021 interview with Lukas Furtenbach, operating from Nepal, we cover his advanced use of technology, how he will manage his team given COVID, and more.","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":[7,147,599,81,216,162],"tags":[432,448,603,453],"class_list":["post-38588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climbing-news","category-everest","category-everest-2021-coverage","category-everest-news","category-everest-popular-posts","category-interview","tag-climbing-news","tag-everest","tag-everest-2021-coverage","tag-interview"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Lukas_Furtenbach.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38588","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=38588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}