{"id":59309,"date":"2018-05-22T17:37:19","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T22:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=59309"},"modified":"2018-05-22T17:39:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T22:39:57","slug":"59309","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=59309","title":{"rendered":"Johann Peiris Becomes Second Sri Lankan To Climb Mt.Everest After Jayanthi Kuru-Utumpola Became the First on  May 21st  2017."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/p>\n<p>By<\/p>\n<p>Walter Wuthmann<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Johann Peries became the second Sri Lankan to summit Mount Everest on Tuesday. Peries reached the almost 8,850-meter peak at 5:50 a.m. Nepal time, according to a release from the Sri Lankan Foreign Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur best wishes to you for a safe descent and journey home to (Sri Lanka),\u201d the Ministry said. Peries is a hair designer who owns salons in Colombo and London. He has summited several peaks before Everest, including Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and Island Peak in Nepal.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The first Sri Lankan to summit Everest was Jayanthi Kuru-Utumpala, who reached the top just after 5 a.m. on May 21, 2016. Peries accompanied her for most the expedition, stopping at the final camp before the peak. \u201cI\u2019m really thrilled and excited that he\u2019s made it to the top,\u201d Kuru-Utumpala told the Daily News yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt took a lot of courage to go back the second time,\u201d she added. \u201cIt takes a lot of courage to go once, and double to go twice.\u201dKuru-Utumpala said she would not feel completely at peace until Peries confirmed he\u2019d reached base camp, a descent that takes about two days. \u201cThe journey down is really treacherous,\u201d she said. \u201cYou\u2019re so exhausted, your body has stopped digesting food to keep your main organs alive.\u201d \u201cOne mistake can cost you your life,\u201d she added. \u201cYou have to be 500 percent prepared.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kuru-Utumpala said that Peries\u2019 friends and family were waiting for his final confirmation \u201cfrom base camp in Colombo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Daily News<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton59309\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D59309&amp;text=Johann%20Peiris%20Becomes%20Second%20Sri%20Lankan%20To%20Climb%20Mt.Everest%20After%20Jayanthi%20Kuru-Utumpola%20Became%20the%20First%20on%20...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Walter Wuthmann Johann Peries became the second Sri Lankan to summit Mount Everest on Tuesday. Peries reached the almost 8,850-meter peak at 5:50 a.m. Nepal time, according to a release from the Sri Lankan Foreign Ministry. \u201cOur best wishes to you for a safe descent and journey home to (Sri Lanka),\u201d the Ministry said. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=59309\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Johann Peiris Becomes Second Sri Lankan To Climb Mt.Everest After Jayanthi Kuru-Utumpola Became the First on  May 21st  2017.&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59309"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59312,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59309\/revisions\/59312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}