{"id":5668,"date":"2012-10-28T19:51:32","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T03:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/?p=5668"},"modified":"2012-10-30T02:24:07","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T10:24:07","slug":"ascent-of-island-peak-and-all-the-way-back-to-chukkang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/ascent-of-island-peak-and-all-the-way-back-to-chukkang\/","title":{"rendered":"Using good judgement&#8230;. failure to make summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/islandpeak_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/islandpeak_2-475x356.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"islandpeak_2\" width=\"475\" height=\"356\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5640 colorbox-5668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/islandpeak_2-475x356.jpg 475w, https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/islandpeak_2.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Up at midnight breakfast and then departed at 1am. The ascent was up large boulder\/scree slope about 900m with the snow fall and bright full moon I didn&#8217;t even use my head torch. I started struggling with breathing and forced myself to crampon point to watch the sun rise and wish everyone well on the glacier and fixed lines.  I was jealous of them moving out onto the glacier and the summit was looking so close. A quick cry, vomit, coughing fit and then watching the most amazing sunrise. I turned around and headed down with Hermanta one of our sherpa climbing guides. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/10272383-view-of-ama-dablam-from-island-peak.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/10272383-view-of-ama-dablam-from-island-peak-475x317.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"10272383-view-of-ama-dablam-from-island-peak\" width=\"475\" height=\"317\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5669 colorbox-5668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/10272383-view-of-ama-dablam-from-island-peak-475x317.jpg 475w, https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/10272383-view-of-ama-dablam-from-island-peak-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/10272383-view-of-ama-dablam-from-island-peak.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe view from Island Peak of Ama Dablam which the head guide Jon will be climbing a few weeks later. <\/p>\n<p>I turned around at 6000m and Claire at 6100m the rest of the team made it the last 200m to summit. I failed to reach as I was vomiting and coughing up from another chest infection like Aconcaqua. It was the right decision to turn around but I hate failure it is an emotion I rarely experience. The journey to the mountain has been amazing and this country is stunningly beautiful so two more days to Lukla and I will write more. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up at midnight breakfast and then departed at 1am. The ascent was up large boulder\/scree slope about 900m with the snow fall and bright full moon I didn&#8217;t even use my head torch. I started struggling with breathing and forced myself to crampon point to watch the sun rise and wish everyone well on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aconcaqua"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5668"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5734,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5668\/revisions\/5734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}