Gear is not optional. A proper down suit can cost $5,000. Good mountaineering boots? Another $1,500. You are basically buying a wardrobe for a planet with no oxygen and ninety-mile-per-hour winds.
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Don't forget the flights, hotels, and food in Kathmandu. You’ll spend a week in the city just waiting for weather clearings, eating momos and staring at your gear. That's another $2,000 or so, easy. It’s like a very cold, very dangerous vacation.
And then there is insurance. You need special high-altitude rescue insurance. That can be $500 to $1,000 a month for the trip. But if you don't buy it, a helicopter ride from Camp 2 can cost you $20,000 to $50,000. That’s the kind of bill that makes you wish you’d just stayed home and watched a documentary.
