{"id":41662,"date":"2022-05-27T11:39:52","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T17:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/?p=41662"},"modified":"2022-05-29T15:45:53","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T21:45:53","slug":"video-interview-adrian-ballinger-alpenglow-on-his-makalu-record-ski-descent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/27\/video-interview-adrian-ballinger-alpenglow-on-his-makalu-record-ski-descent\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Interview Adrian Ballinger, Alpenglow, on his Makalu Record Ski Descent"},"content":{"rendered":"

The world’s fifth-highest at 27,765 feet (8,463 meters), Makalu saw multiple successes this season. Still, on Monday, May 9, 2022, Adrian Ballinger<\/a>,<\/strong> co-founder of Alpenglow, texted me, “I summited today with Dorji Sonam<\/strong> and Pasang Sona<\/strong> (Alpenglow Sherpa). We fixed to the summit from where rope fixing ended by French couloir. And\u2026.I skied Makalu!<\/strong>!!!!! I just got back to ABC. First on top for the season. Alpenglow pride”<\/p>\n

He walks through the climb, discussing how the Sherpas fixed the summit ropes, poor weather at times, or narrow windows of opportunity. I asked him to discuss his “ski technique” for those listeners who are avid skiers. As he was making his way down 8,000 feet of snow and ice, plus a rock gulley or two, he passed climbers going up\u2014what fun.<\/p>\n

Finally, we wrap up with a short discussion about how high-altitude mountaineering is changing, especially on those ‘other’ 8000ers like Kanchnugua, Dhaulagiri, Makalu, and Annapurna.<\/p>\n

Climb On!<\/p>\n

Alan<\/p>\n

Memories are Everything<\/p>\n

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Makalu courtesy of Adrian Ballinger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Interview with Adrian Ballinger, Alpenglow Expeditions<\/h2>\n
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Climb On!
\nAlan
\nMemories are Everything<\/p>\n

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The world’s fifth-highest at 27,765 feet (8,463 meters), Makalu saw multiple successes this season. Still, on Monday, May 9, 2022, Adrian Ballinger, co-founder of Alpenglow, texted me, “I summited today with Dorji Sonam and Pasang Sona (Alpenglow Sherpa). We fixed to the summit from where rope fixing ended by French couloir. And\u2026.I skied Makalu!!!!!! I just got back to ABC. First on top for the season. Alpenglow pride”<\/p>\n

He walks through the climb, discussing how the Sherpas fixed the summit ropes, poor weather at times, or narrow windows of opportunity. I asked him to discuss his “ski technique” for those listeners who are avid skiers. As he was making his way down 8,000 feet of snow and ice, plus a rock gulley or two, he passed climbers going up\u2014what fun.<\/p>\n

Finally, we wrap up with a short discussion about how high-altitude mountaineering is changing, especially on those ‘other’ 8000ers like Kanchnugua, Dhaulagiri, Makalu, and Annapurna.<\/p>\n

Climb On!<\/p>\n

Alan<\/p>\n

Memories are Everything<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":41114,"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,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Video Interview with Adrian Ballinger, Alpenglow, on his Makalu Record, 8,000-foot Ski Descent. Allos we discus how 8,000-meter climbing is drastically changing. #everest2022","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,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,147,621,81,216,162],"tags":[276,248,432,448,620,595,453,631],"class_list":["post-41662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climbing-news","category-everest","category-everest-2022-coverage","category-everest-news","category-everest-popular-posts","category-interview","tag-adrian-ballinger","tag-alpenglow","tag-climbing-news","tag-everest","tag-everest-2022-coverage","tag-everest-popular-posts","tag-interview","tag-makalu-2022"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Adrian-Ballinger-Skiing-Makalu.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41662","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=41662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}