{"id":37,"date":"2005-03-28T20:57:05","date_gmt":"2005-03-29T01:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allclimbing.com\/?p=37"},"modified":"2005-03-28T20:57:05","modified_gmt":"2005-03-29T01:57:05","slug":"the-legend-of-sweet-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/the-legend-of-sweet-death\/","title":{"rendered":"The legend of sweet death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mounteverest.net\" target=\"_blank\">MountEverest.net<\/a> has an article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mounteverest.net\/story\/SweetDeathFeb142005.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">phenomena of &#8220;sweet death&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After last year&#8217;s Everest season, climbers trickled in to ExWeb&#8217;s office bringing with them tales of summits but also some alarming news. All over the mountain, climbers had been falling asleep. All had been shook awake by Sherpas; most weren&#8217;t aware how close to death they&#8217;d been. Almost all were novices to 8000+ altitude. They didn&#8217;t feel cold, or thirsty, or too tired. They just had an overpowering urge to sit down, close their eyes &#8211; and rest for a while.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Discussed are mountain illnesses and how they progress including the following details: &#8220;When dying a \u00e2??sweet death\u00e2??, you feel an innocent desire to lie down and sleep. A certain feeling of wellness overcomes you. And with a sardonic \u00e2??Mona Lisa\u00e2?? smile on your face, you die.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MountEverest.net has an article on phenomena of &#8220;sweet death&#8221;. After last year&#8217;s Everest season, climbers trickled in to ExWeb&#8217;s office bringing with them tales of summits but also some alarming news. All over the mountain, climbers had been falling asleep. All had been shook awake by Sherpas; most weren&#8217;t aware how close to death they&#8217;d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5jRR-B","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}