{"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. 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