So, I totally escalated a simple statement at work this morning

My coworker asks me if I might know what it would cost to hike Mount Everest
No I don't
That's when she responds, about $1,500 plus the cost of airfare to that part of the world...and adds that she and another coworker are contemplating making this trip
💭 🤔
I immediately declare that I will join them, and then I went around recruiting others 💪

Will I go?
Maybe.
Would I want to go with them?
Sure.
Do I want to hike Everest.
Hell yeah I do
I love a strong challenge

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Ynotisay · M

Just because I know a little bit about this stuff, it's WAY more expensive than that. The fixed permit cost is $11,000 per climber. And then there's guides and gear. All in you're looking at between about 30K and 100K depending on different factors.
But the big one is you don't take on something like that unless you have SERIOUS mountaineering skills.Very experienced people die up there most every year. It's also a two to three month endeavor. There's acclimation, in really hard conditions, that has to take place.
I get how people might think "anyone" can do it but they're so very, very wrong. And it most always comes from those with no real mountain time or mountaineering skills.
Don't mean to be a dick but for some things reality really does matter.