{"id":44843,"date":"2024-04-19T10:38:26","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T16:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/?p=44843"},"modified":"2024-04-20T08:50:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T14:50:43","slug":"everest-2024-everyday-everest-podcast-series-part-8-suffering-at-camp-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/19\/everest-2024-everyday-everest-podcast-series-part-8-suffering-at-camp-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Everest 2024: Everyday Everest Podcast Series Part 8\u2013Suffering at Camp 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Part 8 of Everyday Everest, <\/strong><\/em>my new Podcast series, drops today with chapters 25, 26 and 27. I’ll continue my annual coverage as usual.<\/p>\n

Based on my 2020 Virtual Everest<\/a> series, Everyday Everest<\/strong><\/em> follows a fictional team of nine climbers and their personal Sherpas from leaving home to trekking to base camp, acclimatizing, and finally, on their summit push, returning home. I’ll have a twenty-minute episode a few times weekly for the next two months.<\/p>\n

In Part 8, our protagonist, Harper, and the team arrive at Camp 2 to continue acclimatization. The Mt. Everest Guides lead, John Paul, begins to explain how acclimatization works: “‘Acclimatization’ is a strange word that evokes many emotions. Fundamentally it means adapting the human body to an altitude where it was not designed to survive. Even though the percentage of oxygen in the air on Everest’s summit is the same as on a beach in Rio, there are fewer molecules available to inhale. That’s because there is less atmospheric pressure; thus, the oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide molecules spread out. It’s the opposite of what a diver experiences with the pressure increasing as a diver goes deeper. Harper feels more weight, more pressure, whereas a climber has less available oxygen. That’s why it’s called ‘thin air.\u2019”<\/p>\n

The main characters are<\/p>\n

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  1. Harper – protagonist, strong climber,\u00a0 <\/span>Aconcagua, Denali (Husband -Marc, Daughter – Olivia, Son – Jay)<\/li>\n
  2. Dutch – solid climber, quirky<\/li>\n
  3. Tony – solid climber, introvert, impatient<\/li>\n
  4. Michael – Good experience, Manaslu, good friend<\/li>\n
  5. Jim – Second Everest attempt, not strong<\/li>\n
  6. Aaron – good climber, strong friend<\/li>\n
  7. Bart – good climber, strong friend<\/li>\n
  8. Pablo – weak mentally, Aconcagua, Denali<\/li>\n
  9. Claudia – strong climber,\u00a0 <\/span>Aconcagua, Denali<\/li>\n
  10. Guide John Paul – highly experienced, patient, good leader<\/li>\n
  11. Sidar and Guide – Dawa Sherpa<\/li>\n
  12. Guide – Gyalzen Sherpa<\/li>\n
  13. Guide – Tenzing Sherpa<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    We will go through Everest climbing each day as the team arrives in Kathmandu, flies to Luka, and treks to EBC. We’ll follow them at base camp through the acclimatization rotations and receive invaluable help from the Icefall Doctors and Climbing Sherpas. And, of course, the summit pushes starting in mid-May.<\/p>\n

    While there will be accurate historical references, this series is a work of fiction. Names, characters, and incidents are products of the author\u2019s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.<\/p>\n

    Now, Part 8, “Suffering at Camp 2”<\/p>\n

    Climb On!
    \nAlan
    \nMemories are Everything<\/p>\n

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    Everyday Everest Part 8 Podcast To the Cwm<\/h2>\n
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    Previous Everyday Everest Episodes<\/h2>\n