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chris

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Everest
« on: March 11, 2010 »
http://www.bonitanorris.com/

Just woke up one morning and thought she'd climb everest, 18months later and she's going in April!
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Re: Everest
« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2010 »
Fair play to her.
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Re: Everest
« Reply #2 on: March 12, 2010 »
Nothing like starting with one of the harder ones.
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Re: Everest
« Reply #3 on: March 12, 2010 »
Quote from: chris_8764 on March 11, 2010
Just woke up one morning and thought she'd climb everest

Most mornings I can barely decide which socks to put on, never mind what mountain to climb!

Kat was reading a bit of her website and said she had to raise £50K to do it!  I wonder if that is just for the Everest trip alone, or if that includes all the prep in the couple of years running up to it?  Would probably be fair to say you would either need to be fairly wealthy, or well sponsored to ever be able to attempt it...

Still, I look forward to the day when someone posts in the NI-Wild Meets section "Everest Trip" :) 
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Re: Everest
« Reply #4 on: March 12, 2010 »
Quote from: suspectmonkey on March 12, 2010
Quote from: chris_8764 on March 11, 2010
Just woke up one morning and thought she'd climb everest

Still, I look forward to the day when someone posts in the NI-Wild Meets section "Everest Trip" :) 

Bring it on ;D
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Re: Everest
« Reply #5 on: March 12, 2010 »
Lets get Nevis and Snowdon crossed off the list first :D

Quote from: MG1 on March 12, 2010
Quote from: suspectmonkey on March 12, 2010
Quote from: chris_8764 on March 11, 2010
Just woke up one morning and thought she'd climb everest

Still, I look forward to the day when someone posts in the NI-Wild Meets section "Everest Trip" :) 

Bring it on ;D
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MG1

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Re: Everest
« Reply #6 on: March 12, 2010 »
i got enough ear ache for for taking 3 days to do Nevis never mind 3 months for everest
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Re: Everest
« Reply #7 on: March 12, 2010 »
It "only" costs £600 to fly to Katmandu, and you only need a few bob a day to live out there.

You can also, get a porter to carry your stuff for £5 a day  8).

Time is the thing you need, a good few weeks.

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Re: Everest
« Reply #8 on: March 12, 2010 »
And I just meant, to go and look at it, not to get to the top of it !
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Re: Everest
« Reply #9 on: March 13, 2010 »
Apart from the fact that you would most likley die, whats stopping the likes of me just going for it? Is it simply policed by "fear"? If 1 in 5 people died on Ben Nevis would warrant the same respect? I can't understand how there is this area of the world that I'm not allowed to set foot on unless I pay crazy sums of money.
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Re: Everest
« Reply #10 on: March 13, 2010 »
I think is about $12000-$15000 just for the permit the other $15000-$20000 is for your guide,sherpa,food and oxygen($900 per cyclinder)
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Re: Everest
« Reply #11 on: March 13, 2010 »
Why do you need a permit tho? whats to stop someone just sayin right I'm away!
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Re: Everest
« Reply #12 on: March 13, 2010 »
I think its just a way for a poorer country like Nepal to make money its like tourism.
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Re: Everest
« Reply #13 on: May 19, 2010 »
She summited with Kenton Cool setting 2 records youngest brit woman. Kenton Cool 8 time s to the top of Everest most for a british person.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8689810.stm
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