Has anyone here scaled Mt. Everest?

Coinstartled

Did you leave a coin behind?

YQQ

presently they are all climbing in line from base camp up to find your coin.
did you offer a large REWard?

Justacommeman

I left a trail of Cheetos

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yosclimber

My wife has climbed Denali (aka Mt. McKinley),
and her brother's trumpet mouthpiece was left on top of Everest by some of his friends when they did the first ascent of the Kangshung Face in 1983.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangshung_Face

logger7

Seriously hiked about 70% of it the 4000 footers plus in NH and the Long Trail a bunch of times.

jwitten

@logger7 said:

Seriously hiked about 70% of it the 4000 footers plus in NH and the Long Trail a bunch of times.

Hiked the width of it? That's about 2 feet. Let me know when you've hiked the length of it..... Just kidding, lol. I've been on it plenty, around the Smoky Mountain part.

JBK

I threw a coin off the Alps once....

jwitten

Back to Everest... I just read a crazy story about climbing it yesterday. Sounds like a madhouse there.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/it-was-like-a-zoo-death-on-an-unruly-overcrowded-everest/ar-AABWKlk?li=BBnb7Kz#image=AABWKlk_1|2

oih82w8

^

dbldie55

My best friend just spent a month there, but his group was only going to base camp. Hearing what it takes to go to the top is really remarkable.

Traz

Waiting in line right now. Internet dragging since the other 200 of us are all on one guys hotspot

ACop

Disney must have bought it with those lines.

segoja

Climbed Denali with guy that found the body of George Mallory on Mt Everest.

Like to try it one day

Coinosaurus

Michael Fey has been to Everest base camp.

bolivarshagnasty

Mt. Everest is what I call the bar stool at my favorite pub.............. so yeah, many more times than I care to remember.

RogerB

RE: "Climbed Denali with guy that found the body of George Mallory on Mt Everest. Like to try it one day."

Climbing Everest or finding a body?

PTVETTER

I have been to Mt Elbert, Co.

amwldcoin

What's happening on Mt. Everest these days is crazy. $10,000 for a permit and the Nepal Govt. is just after the bucks without regard to people's safety.

kbbpll

@segoja said:
Climbed Denali with guy that found the body of George Mallory on Mt Everest.

Like to try it one day

Reminds me of the old “joke” - what was the first thing Hillary did after summiting Everest? Tossed Mallory’s flag over the edge.

mustangmanbob

In the words of the Prophet

Clint Eastwood

"A man has got to know his limitations."

While in the Army, I had a chance to dive the Doria.

https://www.scubadiving.com/travel/northeast/legendary-iandrea-doriai

I decided that I was just NOT THAT GOOD.

That was a good decision. The wreck has claimed at least 10 divers so far.

segoja

Mallory never made it to the summit. The guy I climbed with is one of the best climbers in the world. With modern climbing gear he said he barely made it up the second step (the route was the North Col route, the same as Mallory and Irvine took). He said there is absolutely no way that anyone could have made it with hob nail boot like Mallory would have used.

Most people take the South Col route, which is where all the deaths have occurred this year. Its much easier and less hassle to get permits. The North Col route is thru China.

Aotearoa

Walked into Base Camp and up Kala Patthar in 1998.

SanctionII

I had two roomTes in college my junior year. Alan became a lawyer. Pete was a mountain climber. After graduating Pete and I lost touch. He stayed in. Intact with Alan.

Pete climbed Everest in the early 1980's. He climbed with a group the included the first climber who did the climb without an oxygen tank. The guy without oxygen was celebrated in the press. Pete said the guy was an egotistical jerk who had to be carried to the top and back down by other climbers who used oxygen tanks because the guy was unable to move due to lack of oxygen.

The cool thing for Alan about Pete's climb is that Pete took Alan's business card with him. Pete set the card on the summit and took a picture of it. On his return Pete gave the photograph of the business card sitting on the top of the world to Alan.

Coinstartled

As a slip and fall attorney, he must have cleaned up!

AUandAG

Not me for sure......I did start the trek to climb all 53 fourteeners in Colorado and finished after climbing one: Greys Peak which is 10th highest at 14,278.

Too tough for me.

topstuf

I have scaled a fish.

mr1931S

Pete said the guy was an egotistical jerk who had to be carried to the top and back down by other climbers who used oxygen tanks because the guy was unable to move due to lack of oxygen.

What an experience. Hauled to the top and then back down on a stretcher. That's how memories are made.

messydesk

@Coinosaurus said:
Michael Fey has been to Everest base camp.

And Kilimanjaro. He climbs up PIkes Peak weather permitting when he's at the ANA Summer Seminar.

mr1931S

If somebody gave me a ticket for summitting Everest ($10K or so value), I think I would come here and try to trade it for some coins.

yosclimber

@mr1874 said:
If somebody gave me a ticket for summitting Everest ($10K or so value), I think I would come here and try to trade it for some coins.

It's more like median $45k total cost (range $25k - $100k), just for the Everest trip.
The $11k is just the permit fee that goes to the Nepali government.
On top of that, you have to pay one of the guide services that has some of these permits,
with cost for logistics, food, paying the climbing guides, porters, and high altitude porters (Sherpas).

Plus you have to spend time and $ training for it, at least climbing something high like Aconcagua (6961m)
to make sure you can handle some altitude.
And it would be fair to count opportunity cost of lost wages for the training time and the time to get there and back....

http://www.alanarnette.com/blog/2018/12/17/how-much-does-it-cost-to-climb-mount-everest-2019-edition

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/why-the-only-thing-tougher-than-climbing-mt-everest-is-raising-the-fund-for-it/articleshow/46890443.cms

3keepSECRETif2rDEAD

I bet if it were even possible to get a joint lit up there it would be crazy cool...I’ll be here on the couch at sea-level getting them in with ease however

Paradisefound

Just make sure you don't go to Nirvana on the way down ..... the coin will not go with you

ricko

Climbed several small mountains in the Catskills, and Mt. St. Helens in WA state... long after the eruption...part way up Rainier...I just like being in mountain country.... Cheers, RickO

TwoKopeiki

I decided to dedicate years of training and tens of thousands of dollars to climb Everest, but remembered that I have a day job and a family, so took a week off instead and hiked up Mt Kili

TradesWithChops

@AUandAG said:
Not me for sure......I did start the trek to climb all 53 fourteeners in Colorado and finished after climbing one: Greys Peak which is 10th highest at 14,278.

Too tough for me.

I started on this, too. I quit after 24 of them. Although, I did run up Pike's Peak several times. I never placed well. My friend won (and set the record) for the pikes peak half marathon. He did it in under 2 hours - 13.3 miles. 6500feet elevation to over 14k.

Never attempted Everest.

291fifth

I watched the movie.

DIMEMAN

Let me think......100K to climb a Mtn that I have ZERO interest in and it might kill me........naw I'll PASS!

And so would anybody in their right mind!

lkenefic

I never got into mountaineering, I was just a desert rat, but my former climbing partner guided folks up Denali and was part of the US team that attempted K2 in 2000... I think they made it to 26000 before weather set in and they were forced down.

WillieBoyd2

To keep this coin-related:

The book Into the Silence - The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis (published 2011) is about the three British mountaineering expeditions in 1921, 1922, and 1924 to Tibet whose purpose was to climb Mount Everest. All three expeditions failed to climb the mountain and the last one resulted in the deaths of two of the climbers, Mallory and Irvine.

Some Tibetans opposed the expeditions for religious reasons and some wondered why the British were trying to do something so dangerous to themselves.

In Tibetan, there is no word for a mountain summit; the very place the British so avidly sought, their highest goal, did not even exist in the language of their Sherpa porters.

Among the "Tigers", men handpicked by Norton and Bruce [expedition leaders] for the most difficult work at the highest elevations, there were many who believed that the British were actually searching for treasure a golden statue of a cow, perhaps a yak, rumored to reside at the highest point, which they would pillage and melt down into coins.

The British had to use Tibetan silver coins, similar to this one, to pay the porters to carry their equipment in 1921 and 1922.

Tibet silver tangka made in the 1920's
Base silver, 27mm, 3.60gm

In 1924 things were different:

Between them they drove ten mules laden only with money. The previous year [1923], the Tibetan authorities had recalled all of the silver in the country, forcing the expedition to rely on copper currency, seventy-five thousand coins altogether.

Tibet copper shokang made in the 1920's (1925)
Copper, 23mm, 5.18gm

They are still searching for that golden statue to make the coins from:

Mt. Everest climbers line up

ACop

Climbed into bed last night. Trying to make the descent now.

georgiacop50

@segoja said:
Climbed Denali with guy that found the body of George Mallory on Mt Everest.

Like to try it one day

You better hurry James! You ain't getting any younger you know...

asheland

This is as high as I've gone:
https://www.blueridgeparkway.org/poi/waterrock-knob/
That's plenty for me.

Justacommeman

https://www.yahoo.com/news/climber-reveals-carnage-everest-summit-191101069.html

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FullStrike

Over the past Weak, I've climbed the Stairs out of my Basement probably 15 times. Thought I was gonna die.

😥

Coinstartled

Exponentially more dangerous is the summit at K2. 30 deaths per 100 successful climbs.

topstuf

Annapurna in Nepal is, by at least one measure, the most dangerous mountain on the planet. 60 people have died climbing the mountain, and only 157 have successfully summitted it, a ratio of 38%, which is worse than K2. Since 1990, though, another Himalayan mountain, Kangchenjunga, has had a higher death rate.

Justacommeman

So what we are saying is that coin collection is more dangerous then mountain climbing

AUandAG

I got close to some high mountains this weekend:

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Coinstartled

@Justacommeman said:
So what we are saying is that coin collection is more dangerous then mountain climbing

Flying in is more dangerous than stamp collecting.

CaptHenway

Reading our local paper. One of the two Americans who just died is from here.