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Taking a trip for six months, you get in the rhythm of it. It feels like you can go on forever doing that. Climbing Everest is the ultimate and the opposite of that. Because you get these high-powered plastic surgeons and CEOs, and you know, they pay $80,000 and have Sherpas put the ladders in place and 8,000 feet of fixed ropes and you get to the camp and you don’t even have to lay out your sleeping bag. It’s already laid out with a chocolate mint on the top. The whole purpose of planning something like Everest is to effect some sort of spiritual and physical gain and if you compromise the process, you’re an a-hole when you start out and you’re an a-hole when you get back.”

Yea anyone in good physical shape and plenty of cash can summit doing it this way. That’s not really an accomplishment. The accomplishment comes from doing the planning and most of the rigorous work yourself or just you and a small group of like minded climbers.

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Posted on 5/29/19 at 5:16 pm to deltaland

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Yea anyone in good physical shape and plenty of cash can summit doing it this way. That’s not really an accomplishment

I know what you are saying but even getting short-roped up and down on summit day ends a multiweek mental and physical test that for 80+% of Americans would be the hardest thing they did in their lives.

As far as Sherpas go, everyone uses Sherpas. The weather window is so short unless you had a strong group of 20-30 elite climbers you simply couldn't set up for a summit bid in a short enough time frame. Even on solo and speed ascent summits the logistics of living at altitude long enough to acclimate for the summit bid are just too great without Sherpas, again unless you have a huge contingent of climbers willing to support such a bid.

This post was edited on 5/29/19 at 5:24 pm

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