Facts? I posted a link that states the trek could cost as much as $120k. Whether it's $40k or $100k it may as well be a billion dollars because most people don't have that kind of money to spend climbing a mountain. That's precisely why climbing Everest isn't the great accomplishment it once was. If it cost $50, there'd be thousands of people reaching the summit every year, and that's taking into consideration that most people have absolutely no interest in risking life to scale a mountain that's been scaled many times before. Put the proper spin on it, like trying to reach the top in record time, would actually be a noteworthy accomplishment.I neither have the $100G's (more like 40-70G's, but facts have never been your strong suit) for the climb nor the qualifications to summit, but do have a standing invitation, with my skill set, to spend time and work at base camp and possibly trek to Camp 1 over the Kumbu.
Listening of some of the members on TERB talk about their money, I'm sure there would be a number of them with a $100G's to do the trip. Now, do they have the skill and desire? They'll spend the same on a hot car, but baulk at this; each to his own.
The majority of those who climb doit as an ultimate challenge of endurance and skill, research and tribute to those before them, not just for shits & giggles. In m,y mind the ultimate challenge for alpinist is to climb the highest peak on each of the seven continents. i believe fewer than 300 have done it. I met only one who has tried and he came up one short, before his health failed him.
You haven't bothered to read her story, but then call her a 'rich bitch' and accuse her of possibly abandoning imagined children, SOP for GG2,
Reminds me of:
You go girl!