{"id":2408278,"date":"2018-12-14T18:40:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T01:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/tales-of-climbing-yore\/"},"modified":"2018-12-14T18:40:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T01:40:01","slug":"tales-of-climbing-yore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/tales-of-climbing-yore\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales of climbing yore"},"content":{"rendered":"

I said, “With all due respect, you’re the one who got us into this predicament!”<\/p>\n

“OK,” said Barry, “you can stay here and wait until you freeze to death.”<\/p>\n

I said, “Barry, I would follow you anywhere!”<\/p>\n

By the time we found the alternative route, we were two-thirds of the way to the funny-shaped restaurant. Probably the highest (in terms of altitude) that I have ever been without an airplane. The alternative route, to our surprise and delight, was a very steep river. It was so steep that it was almost a waterfall. Within the river\/waterfall were huge rocks (they were the size of the bumps on Jackpot in 1973).<\/p>\n

We simply hopped back down using the boulders as stairs. We were back in Chamonix in about 30 minutes. I haven’t been mountain climbing since. After climbing Mount Blanc in my tennis outfit, I feel as if I have nothing more to prove.<\/p>\n

P.S. \u2014 Hans Gramminger taught me everything I know about mountaineering, which isn’t much.<\/p>\n

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Recommended Stories For You<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Verne Gurholt<\/p>\n

Aspen and Santa Fe<\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I said, “With all due respect, you’re the one who got us into this predicament!” “OK,” said Barry, “you can stay here and wait until you freeze to death.” I said, “Barry, I would follow you anywhere!” By the time we found the alternative route, we were two-thirds of the way to the funny-shaped restaurant. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2408278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 20:40:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2408278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2408278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2408278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2408278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}