{"id":2058,"date":"2001-09-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-09-07T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-south-america-en\/2001\/09\/08\/j10-9-8-2001\/"},"modified":"2023-11-25T14:01:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T13:01:35","slug":"j10-9-8-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-south-america-en\/2001\/09\/08\/j10-9-8-2001\/","title":{"rendered":"J10 – 9\/8\/2001"},"content":{"rendered":"

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8th<\/sup> \/ <\/span>DAY 10 <\/o:p> <\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n

  The camp is at an altitude of 4300m. No one has had headaches, but unlike Serge who never gets out of breath, we do every time we are busy. <\/o:p> <\/span><\/p>\n

What\u2019s in store for us today? 30km on flat ground at an altitude of 4300m, then a vertiginous slope towards Ocros(3200m), then Chumbers (2700m) and finally Ninahamba(2160m) where we\u2019ll camp. Today 2000m variation in elevation under a blue sky with some rainy spells. <\/o:p> <\/span><\/p>\n

Serge feels pain in his hip, Ludo, the kine, relieves him, Fabrice, the chiropodist is quite busy as well, the succession of climbs and descents seriously damage his toe nails. <\/o:p> <\/span><\/p>\n

Here the days are getting longer, night falls at 6.15pm instead of 5.45pm and it\u2019s light at 5.45am instead of 6a.m. <\/o:p> <\/span><\/p>\n

Anecdote: At 4.30 Serge decides, after 70km, to take a shortcut, he\u2019d rather go straight down  <\/span>a mountain track than take a winding road for miles.He goes off with Fabrice, equipped with a GPS and a detailed map. The Sangsue (the Leech )will wait for them at a definite spot.6p.m night\u2019s falling but no one within sight. Time\u2019s dragging. <\/o:p> <\/span><\/p>\n

Three possibilities: <\/span><\/p>\n

They got lost and they turned back to the road. <\/o:p> <\/span><\/p>\n

They got lost and have decided to sleep in the mountain. <\/o:p> <\/span><\/p>\n

Serge is hurt, it\u2019s a disaster. <\/o:p> <\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s pitch dark, we call the camp so that a car comes and meets us. We can be seen for 5km around thanks to our revolving light. After an endless waiting, the car arrives, 5 minutes later shouts can be  <\/span>heard in the dark. Here they come, more frightened than hurt. The track being inacceessible, they  <\/span>had to turn back, it took them an hour to find their way back to the road.  <\/span>Once they\u2019d found it, they walked 10km . <\/o:p> <\/span><\/p>\n

A good lesson of humility for who plays tit for tat with the mountain.<\/span> <\/p>\n

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8th \/ DAY 10   The camp is at an altitude of 4300m. No one has had headaches, but unlike Serge who never gets out of breath, we do every time we are busy. What\u2019s in store for us today? 30km on flat ground at an altitude of 4300m, then a vertiginous slope […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-south-america-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-south-america-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-south-america-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-south-america-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-south-america-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-south-america-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2136,"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-south-america-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions\/2136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-south-america-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-south-america-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-south-america-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}