{"id":19370,"date":"2009-10-26T09:39:22","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T09:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/altitude-and-snow-covered-peaks\/"},"modified":"2009-10-26T09:39:22","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T09:39:22","slug":"altitude-and-snow-covered-peaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/altitude-and-snow-covered-peaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Altitude and Snow covered peaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last 7 days have been action packed for the 2 of us, I came down bad with <br \/>altitude sickness and we had to have a rest day to get my self back on track. <br \/>The next day a chase from a pack of rabid dogs almost put me back in my <br \/>sick bed. We have also managed to get in 2 high passes on of 4767m and <br \/>yesterday we put in a killer day of 84k with 30kg trailers and made it up a <br \/>head crushing 5010m pass all in 7 hours<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn2.cdnme.se\/cdn\/9-1\/490171\/images\/2009\/pass-med-byggnader_59348739.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yesterdays head crusher @ 5010m The Fenghuo Shan Pass. Here is Chris <br \/>at the top of the pass. <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn2.cdnme.se\/cdn\/9-1\/490171\/images\/2009\/chris-med-flaggspel-bild-3_58299558.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sunrise in China on our 3rd night of camping in china.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn2.cdnme.se\/cdn\/9-1\/490171\/images\/2009\/sista-bilden_59348209.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now no self respecting Scotsman would go on such and adventure with <br \/>out his hip flask well we forgot the Flask and took the bottle!!!!<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn2.cdnme.se\/cdn\/9-1\/490171\/images\/2009\/whisky-i-tltet_59347809.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The temperature has been dropping to -5c some days so we had to make <br \/>up some make shift hand warms out of an old set of china army trowers <br \/>over a couple beers <\/p>\n<p>For the next 2 weeks it\u2019s going to be snow on the side of the road I am <br \/>going to be so ready to ski by the time I get back.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn2.cdnme.se\/cdn\/9-1\/490171\/images\/2009\/mikep-pass-bild-2_58300502.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By the time we got down from the pass all the accommodation was taken <br \/>at the local road workers inn so some of the workers offered to take us to <br \/>the next town which we though to be only 2km but was infact 60km what a <br \/>cold ride!<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn2.cdnme.se\/cdn\/9-1\/490171\/images\/2009\/mike-p-van_59348404.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Food has been all in all really good when we can manage to get in to the <br \/>kitchen and point at what you would like, but sometimes you wish you hadn&#8217;t. <br \/>Now some thing in the shops do have the strangest names!!!!<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn2.cdnme.se\/cdn\/9-1\/490171\/images\/2009\/cowpea-bild-1_58300143.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\/Mike<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last 7 days have been action packed for the 2 of us, I came down bad with altitude sickness and we had to have a rest day to get&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-other"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}