Thread 2842537

> a trip lasts 2 months
>and costs $40 000
You need to be a really rich NEET to climb Everest

>>2842537 (OP)
You can do it for a lot less if you don't use a guide. Unfortunately for you the Napel government legally mandated you must use a guide, and no sherpa is going to slave away for you for 2 months for minimum pay. You can probably convince one to take you to base camp though for under $1000, no need to acclimatize for that unless your body can't even cope with 10k alt. Only takes like a week too.

In fact most of the "2 months" is really just wasted acclimatizing people and training them by taking training runs up to camps 1, 2 and 3 repeatedly and you only get to go to camp 4 + summit if your guide thinks you have a good weather window.

>>2842542
why not just use nukes or bombs to melt the snow and then it would be much easier to summit

>>2842546
It's actually harder to summit when the snow is melted. There's a reason why summit season is typically late spring and not early fall. It's much easier to ascend with crampons in hardpacked snow than to struggle up loose rocks and dirt. K2 this year for instance had a hot season and lots of areas where it would normally be hardpacked snow was just loose rocks instead making it super dangerous and people had to give up on it.

>>2842547
why not melt the snow and then build concrete ramps up to the top im pretty sure they could do it if they wanted to

>>2842551
impossible to maintain.
it's also permafrost after a certain alt
and that would completely kill one of napal's biggest business ventures (guides)

There are so many good hikes other than the summits. It’s cheaper to hike in Nepal than to live a day in America. The only expensive part is the travel to and from. If you have the fund and time to get to Nepal you should 100% do it.

But that is not what this thread is about, and yes it is very expensive to summit.

t. Knower

>>2842551
>>2842555
I am pretty sure the chinese will do it eventually. Build a lift to the top and a restaurant there.

>>2842585
if we can have autonomous electric trains we should build them to the top of every mountain

>>2842585
>>2842587
It's almost certainly impossible. Also the Chinese side of everest is dogshit compared to the Nepal side, and the Chinese side already has a road that goes to the base camp. Either way though it's far more dangerous to climb than the Nepal side.

Also after a certain alt you literally start to die and lose brain cells. You can't make a functional building near the top of Everest. Simply not feasible. Not to mention the horrible weather.

>>2842605
You actually start to get brain damage at much lower altitudes. I think studies have shown even as low as 16k ft you start to do irreversible damage.

https://www.amjmed.com/article/s0002-9343(05)00674-1/fulltext

>>2842605
maybe the trains could be pressurized.