<p>prolly should im already really familiar with a guide company i will be asking them just felt like hearing wut people had to say</p>
<p>go to Ecuador, climb the Andes</p>
<p>Call us back when you've done K2.</p>
<p>Hey guys I am totally serious. I am building a rocket ship to orbit around the moon, I've read all the books, studied physics, astronomical physics, and proper nutritional needs in space. Now do you think I can get a loan from a bank to do this? I have skydived and have done a freefall plane. I am not a novice, I am a pro astronaut/spaceship builder.</p>
<p>K2 is the most dangerous mountain in the world.
A significantly more techniqually difficult and dangerous mountain than Everest (just not as tall)</p>
<p>I thought the best time to climb Everest was April-May - not the summertime.</p>
<p>good luck getting a loan</p>
<p>You guys can stop indulging him. Quite frankly this guy seems like the kind of person who reads about something in a magazine and suddenly becomes an expert. </p>
<p>You all know who I'm talking about. The guy who reads a gun magazine and becomes the dude from Shoot Em Up. The guy who picks up a car mag and thinks he can become the next star of The Fast and Furious.</p>
<p>On a side note, I've been playing Counterstrike a lot. Do you think SWAT teams are hiring?</p>
<p>Try Matterhorn in Switzerland, I hear it's pretty good practice for higher mountains, and pretty cheap as long as you have the equipment.</p>
<p>April May is when the season opens and it takes about 3 months to climb</p>
<p>hotelmoscow yeah my 7 years of prior experience and application all came from a magazine my uncle got me involved when i was 10 first got to a mountain at 11</p>
<p>"Also this is assuming i come up with the money which is very close to $50,000 (i have ways but they might not work out)."</p>
<p>Just curios. What are your ways? I always laugh when I hear that people have ways to get money, but they never reveal them.</p>
<p>As for as climbing, I think it is a VERY stupid idea. I wouldn't be given a 1/3 chance to die just to climb a mountain. But to each his own.</p>
<p>my grandfather could finance my expedition without a problem (he has financed my other trips) only issue is there have always been "strings attached" and borrowing that much money can come with many strings.</p>
<p>I climbed the Harder Klum this summer. It's in Switzerland It was a 5-6 hour round trip, 800 vertical meters. It was pretty fun. I am thinking of doing K2 next. I also made it to Jungfraujoch at 3500 meters, but I took the train.</p>
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<p>Probably not. You don't really have income. How can you promise a bank you will pay them back $50,000 when you aren't making any money?</p>
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<p>Yes, and please name soccerguy315 as the beneficiary, thank you.</p>
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<p>yes, I think you should wait, until you have more experience under your belt. You are assuming all of this pre-Everest climbing will go smoothly, when, in all honesty, it most likely won't. I think doing research over the summer would help you more in the quest for medical school than mountain climbing.</p>
<p>cool...I, as well, am planning an expedition to Mars during the summer of my Junior year. I have already been to San Diego and New York (!!) so this shouldn't be a problem at all. And you have really inspired me to write a book detailing my exploits as well. (Although I will decide on the title(s) later.) Let's exchange notes after our corresponding adventures.</p>
<p>I don't see why everyone is being so sarcastic, if he plans to go in 4-5 years that would give him over 15 years of climbing experience. He is only planning ahead for the future. All of your analogies are stupid.</p>
<p>It's like saying, "Hey, I've already driven a plane and flown a fighter jet I wanna go into space soon. If I take training for four or five years and apply everything I learn during that time do you think this would be feasible?"</p>
<p>It's not that crazy, there have been people with less th an 15 years of experience to climb everest.</p>
<p>However, I would say that you do need to plan on at least doing the aforementioned mountains from your original post in addition to a few more if finances allow in order to really get a grasp of various conditions. At that altitude things can easily take as turn for the worst.</p>
<p>Ask people who know about mountaineering, not college.</p>
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<p>If I climbed a small hill 9 years ago, that doesn't mean I have 9 years of mountain-climbing experience. </p>
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<p>All of whom have had several years of intense climbing and training. Taking 2 weeks off in the summer between school years doesn't exactly count.</p>
<p>Let me start off by saying that I, too, am very interested in climbing Everest. I was planning to climb McKinley next summer, but I am putting that off to perhaps go to Thailand in December (instead of training/preparing) and touring the Middle East in the summer. That aside, I do not recommend it.</p>
<p>For one, I have put my age window to climb Everest at 25-30. Everest is not technical in a sense of actual climbing, but the places that are dangerous will kill you. The most important thing to know about climbing it is that at the higher altitudes, your thinking is so slow that you will have to make critical decisions almost off what feels like instinct. There is simply not enough oxygen. That said, at the age of 19-20 you may know what to do in plenty of situations, but they will probably not be ingrained strongly enough in your schema to be available at 8200m.</p>
<p>Life insurance is a very serious matter, and you will probably not be covered within two years or so of opening a new policy. I am in the process of getting life insurance (I just turned 18) and I had to say that I wasn't planning on climbing a mountain, even though I am :p. What I have to do is wait long enough after my new policy becomes effective to make it seem as though I wasn't planning the ascent when I was getting the policy in case of an emergency, aka death. Also, it may be hard to grasp the concept that 1 out of 10 attempting climbers die in the process. I have a very similar "it won't happen to me" attitude, because I am so high in fitness percentiles for the general population. That aside, I actually realize that everyone trying to climb Everest is at the peak of fitness; it is that challenging.</p>
<p>The youngest Briton to climb Everest was 22, and he died on the way down. You have your whole life ahead of you. Think about the damage the loss of your life would do to your family.</p>
<p>Oh, and finally, realize that no one climbs Everest and plans to die on the way.</p>
<p>i dont plan to die but i realize it is a very real possibility but just standing on the mountain and looking down from the summit will make it worth it at least to me</p>
<p>hope for the best, plan for the worst</p>