{"id":199,"date":"2009-01-13T03:13:38","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T08:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/?p=199"},"modified":"2009-01-14T14:41:30","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T19:41:30","slug":"youngest-briton-to-scale-everest-killed-was-named-adventurer-of-the-year-for-global-journey-using-only-skis-sleds-sails-and-bicycles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/2009\/01\/13\/youngest-briton-to-scale-everest-killed-was-named-adventurer-of-the-year-for-global-journey-using-only-skis-sleds-sails-and-bicycles\/","title":{"rendered":"Youngest Briton to scale Everest killed – Was named “Adventurer of the Year” for global journey using only skis, sleds, sails and bicycles"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Updated<\/em> – More from National Geographic:
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CNN reports:<\/p>\n

Rob Gauntlett, the youngest Briton to summit Mount Everest, died in a climbing accident along with another mountaineer in the French Alps, the British Foreign Office confirmed Sunday. Both were 21.<\/p>\n

he bodies of Gauntlett and James Atkinson were found Saturday in the Mont Blanc area. Weather conditions were reported to have been clear and cold in Chamonix at the time.<\/p>\n

Gauntlett scaled Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak, in 2006 just days after his 19th birthday, along with 19-year-old James Hooper, his Web site says. He shattered the previous British record set by Bear Grylls at the age of 23.<\/p>\n

Last month, National Geographic Adventure magazine declared Gauntlett and Hooper “adventurers of the year” for their 26,000-mile journey from one of Earth’s magnetic poles to the other using only skis, sleds, sails and bicycles.<\/p>\n

Gauntlett said on his Web site that completing the journey was his proudest moment.<\/p>\n

“We had spent three months on a 60-foot yacht sailing across the world’s most brutal ocean. A year before I had done virtually no proper sailing, so to be thrown in at the very deep end was a little scary at times,” he admitted.<\/p>\n

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Full article here:
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More articles:
\nNational Geographic article<\/a>
\nThe Independent article<\/a>
\nBBC article<\/a>
\nNY Times article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Updated – More from National Geographic: article 1 article 2 video CNN reports: Rob Gauntlett, the youngest Briton to summit Mount Everest, died in a climbing accident along with another mountaineer in the French Alps, the British Foreign Office confirmed Sunday. Both were 21. he bodies of Gauntlett and James Atkinson were found Saturday in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,14,59,56,61,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure","category-boating-disasters","category-history","category-international","category-survival","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}