{"id":39208,"date":"2021-05-02T13:26:09","date_gmt":"2021-05-02T19:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/?p=39208"},"modified":"2021-05-02T00:16:02","modified_gmt":"2021-05-02T06:16:02","slug":"everest-2021-interview-with-the-uks-kenton-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/02\/everest-2021-interview-with-the-uks-kenton-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"Everest 2021: Interview with the UK&#8217;s Kenton Cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenton Cool is one of the premier climbers from the United Kingdom. Among his many accomplishments, he skied the 8000er Cho Oyu, made the first, and thus far only, climb of Everest, Lhotse, and Nuptse in seven days in 2013. And he has summited Everest 14 times. He&#8217;s currently on Everest with a client attempting his 15th which would tie American Dave Hahn for the most non-Sherpa summits of Everest.<\/p>\n<p>I caught up with Kenton while he was in Namache Bazzar recovering from his acclimatization rotations in prep for the summit bid. 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Just search for &#8220;alan arnette&#8221; on your favorite podcast platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenton Cool is one of the premier climbers from the United Kingdom. Among his many accomplishments, he skied the 8000er Cho Oyu, made the first, and thus far only, climb of Everest, Lhotse, and Nuptse in seven days in 2013. And he has summited Everest 14 times. He&#8217;s currently on Everest with a client attempting his 15th which would tie American Dave Hahn for the most non-Sherpa summits of Everest.<\/p>\n<p>I caught up with Kenton while he was in Namache Bazzar recovering from his acclimatization rotations in prep for the summit bid. We discussed the allure of Everest, a bit of history, his own long-time interaction with the mountain, and the conditions this year.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a fun, fascinating interview I hope you enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":39210,"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":"Live Interview with the UK's Kenton Cool from Namache Bazaar. He's on #Everest2021 for his 15th summit! 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