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seeahill wrote:It cost $3500. Airfare can be had for as little as $900. I paid a lot more for biz class for the 14 hour trip from Dubai to Seattle.

You'll probably end up paying another $500 or so for tips for porters and guides. Also, you pay for your water up high which can cost $3 for a liter, and your hotel in Kathmandu ($65/day). Meals in Kathmandu.

Figure $4,500 for the trip. Then do airfare. Ang Dorjee is affiliated with Adventure Consultants. They have Base Camp trips every year.

http://www.adventureconsultants.com/

Truly amazing Tim, good for you and highly jealous!

Awesome job, congrats!

Sweet pics too!

why can't somebody hot summit some mountains and post pics instead of some old guy with a grey beard

Jessa Younker

Amazing stuff. Thanks for sharing.

snatch grip wrote:Amazing stuff. Thanks for sharing.

No prob

I did a lot of self punishing things like that when I was a youngster in my 60s.

Andy79 wrote:I did a lot of self punishing things like that when I was a youngster in my 60s.

Just trying to catch up, Andy.

seeahill wrote:

Andy79 wrote:I did a lot of self punishing things like that when I was a youngster in my 60s.

Just trying to catch up, Andy.

You're doing just fine. Just don't wreck your joints trying.

Just flying in/out of here would've been awesome.

Tim - guys older than you have gone up that hill. You will never forgive yourself for "being so close and yet so far". You will feel "old" because you "turned back". You have implicitly set this challenge before yourself.

Prepare yourself accordingly, take proper supplies and get 'er done. Not to the base camp, which is a consolation prize.

Climb to the Summit. Do it!!

The event will be something that you will remember, over and over again, for the rest of your days. It'll be worth ten times what you paid for the trip and in time to prepare.

You will be insufferably smug about "climbing the world's tallest mountain". In this one case I think you will have earned the right to be both smug and insufferable.

Catch up, Gene