{"id":2297,"date":"2010-05-06T15:25:02","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T21:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/?p=2297"},"modified":"2013-03-14T15:17:58","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T22:17:58","slug":"devloping-an-everest-climbing-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/06\/devloping-an-everest-climbing-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Devloping an Everest Climbing Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the Everest season in full swing, click<\/a> many people ask what it takes to climb the highest mountain in the world.<\/p>\n

It comes down to a few areas: skills, experience, fitness and commitment.<\/p>\n

Many people focus on the money, and of course that is important. Look to budget at least $30K for a north side climb and $40K for a south side climb assuming you are looking to go a couple of years from now. Go with a quality organization, not the lowest price one.<\/p>\n

Here are ten key factors to consider for planning an Everest expedition:<\/p>\n

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  1. Build your climbing fund<\/span><\/strong>: create a plan to prioritize climbing expenses in your overall income and expense plan.<\/li>\n
  2. Find like minded climbers<\/span><\/strong> with similar goals you can train with and count on in difficult times: Join a club<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Get in shape<\/span><\/strong> – you need a basic level of fitness to start climbing including stamina and aerobic conditioning: Interval training, long runs and climbs, anything that takes several hours is good training: A good program can be found at Body Results<\/a> or PowerFit<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Lean the basics<\/span><\/strong> of wilderness medicine<\/a>, and avalanche training<\/a> and mountaineering through a course: Look into courses with RMI<\/a> , REI <\/a> and AIARE<\/a> <\/li>\n
  5. Accumulate the quality gear<\/span><\/strong> you can . Don’t skimp because it could mean your fingers, toes or your life at 8000m: AAI<\/a> has an excellent gear and brand suggestion list. <\/li>\n
  6. Climb mountains that limit your risk but still allow you to learn<\/span><\/strong> such as Rainier<\/a> or difficult 14ers in Colorado<\/a> or California<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. Test<\/span><\/strong> your skills on a high mountain such as Aconcagua and a tough snow mountain like Denali: Go with a proven guide who will teach you as well as guide.<\/li>\n
  8. Climb to 8000m<\/span><\/strong> on Cho Oyu before Everest to experience expedition life, extreme altitude and understand how your body performs: Ideally, go with the same guide you will select for Everest<\/li>\n
  9. Work on your mental toughness<\/span><\/strong> by pushing yourself in harsh conditions: Run in the pouring rain, climb on the coldest and windiest route at night you can muster, cycle when dead tired, climb with a pack heavier than you will use on your next climb<\/li>\n
  10. Hone<\/span><\/strong> your climbing skills to be as self sufficient on every climb as possible including knots, crevasse rescue, winter camping techniques, cooking. Practice every chance you get<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    You can read more ideas on my 8000m FAQ page<\/a>, gear page <\/a>and on my Selecting a Guide page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    Climb On!<\/p>\n

    Alan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    With the Everest season in full swing, many people ask what it takes to climb the highest mountain in the world.<\/p>\n

    It comes down to a few areas: skills, experience, fitness and commitment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[147,81],"tags":[14,17,26,5,448,439,40,64],"class_list":["post-2297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everest","category-everest-news","tag-14er","tag-aai","tag-cho-oyu","tag-denali2011_audio","tag-everest","tag-everest-news","tag-img","tag-rei"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/rainier_2004_1451.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}