{"id":730,"date":"2026-09-07T11:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T09:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/altitude.lu\/?p=730"},"modified":"2026-09-09T09:05:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T07:05:01","slug":"my-arrival-in-nepal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/altitude.lu\/en\/my-arrival-in-nepal-2\/","title":{"rendered":"My arrival in Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-33c62da2 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\">\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Beginning of a new adventure<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ve safely arrived in Kathmandu, eager to get this new adventure underway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Destination: Manaslu (8,163m)\u2014my very first 8,000-meter peak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After several weeks of physical training and hypoxia conditioning, I\u2019ve reached Kathmandu before continuing on to Samagaun and then Base Camp. Summit push is targeted for late September, following a month and a half on expedition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For this climb, I\u2019ll be joined by two high-altitude specialists:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tshering Pemba Sherpa: A renowned IFMGA-certified mountain guide specializing in 8,000m+ peaks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Orianne Aymard: A renowned keynote speaker and high-altitude mountaineer who has successfully summitted both Lhotse and Mount Everest. I\u2019ll be joining her once at Base Camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Follow their Instagram pages here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tsering_pemba_sherpa\/\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tsering_pemba_sherpa\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/orianneaymard\/\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/orianneaymard\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"788\" src=\"https:\/\/altitude.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/FT-retouche-DSC03108-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/altitude.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/FT-retouche-DSC03108-768x1024.jpg 768w, 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Destination: Manaslu (8,163m)\u2014my very first 8,000-meter peak. After several weeks of physical training and hypoxia conditioning, I\u2019ve reached Kathmandu before continuing on to Samagaun and then Base Camp. Summit push is targeted for late September, following a month [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-classe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/altitude.lu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/altitude.lu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/altitude.lu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/altitude.lu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/altitude.lu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/altitude.lu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":806,"href":"https:\/\/altitude.lu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions\/806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/altitude.lu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/altitude.lu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/altitude.lu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/altitude.lu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}