{"id":40117,"date":"2021-10-20T10:19:51","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T16:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/?p=40117"},"modified":"2021-10-20T10:19:51","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T16:19:51","slug":"video-interview-with-jon-gupta-7-himalayan-climbs-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/20\/video-interview-with-jon-gupta-7-himalayan-climbs-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Interview with Jon Gupta: 7 Himalayan Climbs in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I caught up with British climbing Guide, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mountexpeds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jon Gupta<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/mountain-expeditions.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mountain Expeditions<\/a> to discuss his amazing 2021 where he guided mostly one client, fellow Brit Rebecca &#8216;Becks&#8217; Ferry on six 8000-meter mountains. He also climbed a 7000er with a friend and is now on Ama Dablam. Overall he climbed (time the discussion starts in the video)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Everest (Summit) at 19:50<\/li>\n<li>Lhotse (Summit) at 22:00<\/li>\n<li>Makalu (reached 7500m)<\/li>\n<li>K2 (Summit) at 25:05<\/li>\n<li>Pobeda (reached 7200m)<\/li>\n<li>Manaslu (Fore Summit ~8160m) at 40:00<\/li>\n<li>Dhaulagiri (reached 7817m) at 36.09<\/li>\n<li>Ama Dablam &#8211; TBD<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We cover a range of topics from how he got into climbing, why he prefers private guiding over the large commercial team model, his experience on Everest (at 19:50), especially with COVID (at 22:48), their experience on Makalu (25:05) which Becks considers her best moment even though they didn&#8217;t summit, their K2 summit (25:05) &#8211; a first for Jon and Becks, their summit experience on Manaslu (40:00) and the current discussion around the true vs. fore summit, and why they turned back on their summit push on\u00a0Dhaulagiri (36:09).<\/p>\n<p>I think you&#8217;ll enjoy meeting this highly experienced Mountain Guide and enjoy watching some of his videos that can also be found on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mountexpeds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jon.gupta.18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> accounts.<\/p>\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;:&quot;40119&quot;,&quot;player_type&quot;:&quot;Video.js 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Overall he climbed (the time the discussion starts in the video)<\/p>\n<p>Everest (Summit) at 19:50<br \/>\nLhotse (Summit) at 22:00<br \/>\nMakalu (reached 7500m)<br \/>\nK2 (Summit) at 25:05<br \/>\nPobeda (reached 7200m)<br \/>\nManaslu (Fore Summit ~8160m) at 40:00<br \/>\nDhaulagiri (reached 7817m) at 36.09<br \/>\nAma Dablam &#8211; TBD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":40123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"I caught up with British climbing Guide, Jon Gupta of Mountain Expeditions to discuss his amazing 2021 where he guided mostly one client, fellow Brit Rebecca 'Becks' Ferry on six 8000-meter mountains. 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