{"id":1250,"date":"2018-05-30T08:42:16","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T08:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2018-05-30T08:45:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T08:45:02","slug":"a-touch-of-frostbite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/2018\/05\/30\/a-touch-of-frostbite\/","title":{"rendered":"A touch of Frostbite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It comes with the territory for me. Everyone knows I had a bit in 2011 following my summit of Muztah Ata. So predisposition to the mountaineers disease is a recurring possibility. As I descended from Everest&#8217;s summit last week, my toes on the right foot developed a familiar throbbing. Getting off Sagarmatha was a priority on multiple levels.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1251\" src=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_20180529_133837612-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20180529_133837612\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_20180529_133837612-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_20180529_133837612-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_20180529_133837612-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_20180529_133837612-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_20180529_133837612.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>First degree is the least serious level. It is uncomfortable and after they were rewarmed at the hospital, the sensation was intense and remains so today. I can look forward to a couple of weeks worth of discomfort, but no losses, according to the staff at Ciwec Hospital. I go back for a follow up tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously we are still in Kathmandu, our baggage, not. Everest really doesn&#8217;t want to let any parts of us depart for home. While we wait for our things and, most importantly, my Sherpa, Ang Dawa, I want to share a summit shot with my Nepali brother.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1254\" src=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screenshot_20180530-140142-300x169.png\" alt=\"Screenshot_20180530-140142\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screenshot_20180530-140142-300x169.png 300w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screenshot_20180530-140142-768x432.png 768w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screenshot_20180530-140142-1024x576.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It comes with the territory for me. Everyone knows I had a bit in 2011 following my summit of Muztah Ata. So predisposition to the mountaineers disease is a recurring possibility. As I descended from Everest&#8217;s summit last week, my &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/2018\/05\/30\/a-touch-of-frostbite\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1256,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions\/1256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}