{"id":12143,"date":"2012-04-12T15:36:26","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T15:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/?p=12143"},"modified":"2012-04-12T15:45:07","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T15:45:07","slug":"riding-the-tears-of-everest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/riding-the-tears-of-everest\/","title":{"rendered":"Riding the tears of Everest."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Riding the tears of Everest.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=12146\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12146\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12146\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/sample-3-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/sample-3-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/sample-3-1024x670.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Its dark now, the sun had gone home for the night,<br \/>\nRapids run and labour won,<br \/>\nIn the crashing flow I had to fight,<br \/>\nTo welcome the love I wanted to flow,<br \/>\nFor me alone I paddle along,<br \/>\nIn Everests shadow the flowing rivers,<br \/>\nGave me memories where I seem to belong,<br \/>\nI dont doubt its passing,<br \/>\nWhere the flows goes still,<br \/>\nI embrace all the magic and wonder at will,<br \/>\nFor mine is this pleasure,<br \/>\nI smile of joy,<br \/>\nWhere courtly romance,<br \/>\nIs our true river dance.<\/p>\n<p>I have been back in the UK for some weeks now, the solo descent of Everest rivers gone \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but etched on my soul. If you click on the link <a title=\"Riding the tears of Everest\" href=\"http:\/\/8848descent.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.8848descent.blogspot.com<\/a> a full description of the trip will be available, you will also be in a position to read a full article about the trip when it is finished.<\/p>\n<p>A short film show and lecture tour will take place over the next few months, these will be in the UK, please keep a watch out on the blog for such details.<\/p>\n<p>The trip was supported by <a title=\"@therealberghaus\" href=\"http:\/\/www.berghaus.com\" target=\"_blank\">Berghaus<\/a> as prime sponsor with continued support from Pyranha. The expedition was scheduled to take 21 selfsupport days across the Dudh Kosi, Sun Kosi and Arun gorges, although I paddled much quicker (doing 120km some days). I paddled an Everest, like I have on so many descents around the world. It proved to be fast, agile and with sufficient storage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riding the tears of Everest. &nbsp; Its dark now, the sun had gone home for the night, Rapids run and labour won, In the crashing flow I had to fight, To welcome the love I wanted to flow, For me alone I paddle along, In Everests shadow the flowing rivers, Gave me memories where I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link block-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/riding-the-tears-of-everest\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[273,5],"tags":[299,74,120,300],"class_list":["post-12143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expeditions-2","category-paddler-lifestyle-articles","tag-8848-descent","tag-everest","tag-kayak","tag-solo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9tk9G-39R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12143"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12147,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12143\/revisions\/12147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}