{"id":16184,"date":"2022-05-31T08:34:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T08:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/?p=16184"},"modified":"2024-05-03T13:01:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T13:01:22","slug":"altitude-sickness-ends-everest-base-camp-karl-watson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/altitude-sickness-ends-everest-base-camp-karl-watson\/","title":{"rendered":"Altitude sickness ends Everest Base Camp quest, feat. Karl Watson | WIHTF podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approx read: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><h2 id=\"karl-watson-creates-travel-doc\" class=\"x_elementToProof\">Karl Watson creates travel documentaries from his backpacking adventures around the world.<\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"his-youtube-channel-karl-watso\" class=\"x_elementToProof\">His YouTube channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/karlwatson18\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Karl Watson:<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Travel Documentaries<\/span><\/a> has close to 200k subscribers and his films have been viewed more than 17 million times.<\/h3>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16187\" src=\"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_7684.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_7684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_7684-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_7684-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_7684-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_7684-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Karl tells the When it Hits the Fan podcast about a 2014 trip to Everest Base Camp where good friend Chris suddenly came down with severe altitude sickness, leading to a race against time to get him medical treatment and a flight out of Lhasa, Tibet.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16186\" src=\"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_7683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_7683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_7683-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_7683-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_7683-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_7683-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Karl also arranges tours in conjunction with Intrepid Travel. Find out more about them here: <a id=\"LPlnk839276\" href=\"https:\/\/www.karlwatson.net\/tours\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\">https:\/\/www.karlwatson.net\/tours<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0ECu5anBmbA?si=XKEJYSeQvOkIyASm\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karl Watson creates travel documentaries from his backpacking adventures around the world. His YouTube channel Karl Watson: Travel Documentaries has close to 200k subscribers and his films have been viewed more than 17 million times. Karl tells the When it Hits the Fan podcast about a 2014 trip to Everest Base Camp where good friend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":16185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1659],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-when-it-hits-the-fan-podcast","post_format-post-format-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16184"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21710,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16184\/revisions\/21710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}