{"id":1777,"date":"2017-05-22T05:11:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T05:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1777"},"modified":"2025-09-29T18:20:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T18:20:14","slug":"the-hillary-step-on-mt-everest-has-collapsed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1777","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Hillary Step&#8221; on Mt. Everest has collapsed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hillary_Step\">Hillary Step<\/a>; named for the first person to summit Mt. Everest, it was the last obstacle from the top. Evidently the 2015 Nepal earthquake caused the collapse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This from the Guardian (UK).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/may\/21\/part-of-mount-everest-has-collapsed-mountaineers-confirm\">\u201cIt\u2019s a piece of mountaineering history that has disappeared. Even non-mountaineers know the name and the association of the infamous Hillary Step,\u201d he said. He said the difference between the state of the step as he saw it on this trip and his previous five expeditions was \u201chuge\u201d and meant he had serious concerns for how people would safely climb the section in the future. Located at 8,790 metres, the Hillary Step is a steep and narrow section considered by climbers to be the last obstacle before the summit, which is at 8,848 metres.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b7c8fab057970b-300wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13322\" title=\"Hillary step\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this pre-2015 view of Mt. Everest, the high point is the summit; to the right of the summit, the southeast ridge slopes down to the Hillary Step, and then rises up to the South Summit. The yellow band is its namesake geological feature stretching across the mountain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the Hillary Step; named for the first person to summit Mt. Everest, it was the last obstacle from the top. Evidently the 2015 Nepal earthquake caused the collapse. This from the Guardian (UK). \u201cIt\u2019s a piece of mountaineering history that has disappeared. Even non-mountaineers know the name and the association of the infamous Hillary Step,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1777"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13323,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions\/13323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}