Everest Week: In 2024 it costs $98,000 to climb Everest on average

Everest Week: In 2024 it costs $98,000 to climb Everest on average

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Fact of the day, day day day day.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Do do do do do do doo doo. I had
a bunch of facts for today, but I've made a
last minute pivot.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
It's pavat every week funny what watch TV show?

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Oh So what I did was I was quoting.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
I just sort of a scene that's I think it
flew under the radar from a show called Friends, which
wasn't very big, and it's one of the characters who's
not was like Ross or something. He's moving a couch
upstairs with his friends and they can't move it, so
he keeps yelling pivot. It just gets funnier and funnier
and funnier. So that's what I was referencing there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, pivat.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
What's it called? Friends? Is the name of the show? Interesting?
YEA had that to the last sex and that they're.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
All friends living in a huge though no, no, no,
it's all completely equal.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yeah. I don't believe that'll ever work. That soo many people.
It's really great. It's main characters impossible.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Somebody messaged in this morning at seven twenty one am
their phone number ends and five six nine. Boy, I
hope I still listen, Okay, because they said morning for
fact of the day, you should do what it costs
to climb Mount Everest. I recently googled and I was
absolutely shocked.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
Oh my god. Of course, do you have to go
with a group, an expedition group.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
You have to.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
It's like a government thing. It's because it's such a
money maker for Nepal. Yeah, it has to be. You
have to do it through a certified group. I can't
just get the crampons. A couple of people have right
climbed it, you know, without telling anybody, right, and they
did survive. But everyone's like, that's the crazy thing because

(02:01):
on the days where it's given the tick to climb,
it's very busy.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yeah, and if no one's up there, there's a reason
for it. But you think you should.

Speaker 4 (02:09):
You would think they would limit the amount of people
because it's already so insane.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
They do, they do, But there are other ways to go,
because you know, there's the bases that we all know.
And then when you look at the photos of these
cues getting up to the top, there's like seems to
be a singular.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Train there's only one way you can climb it. Yeah,
I guess the rest of it would be like impossible
basically so. According to.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Speed Review, the twenty twenty four cost of climbing Mount
Everest starts at fifty thousand.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
New Zealand b what say again? Starts at fifty.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Thousand New Zealand dollars, but depending on your level of luxury,
it can cost up to three hundred and fifty thousand
dollars per person.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
Oh my god, is that like for one of those
yurts with a fireplace in it, you know, those like
lamping yurts.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yeah, yeah, I do that.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
No, I don't believe it's glamy. I just believe it's
like more. They'll sort you out with third and stuff,
and maybe I'll just take my own. I'll just take
a Musli ba. Just take a music get a box
of Pens music.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
With the chocolate chips, with the talking chaps.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
For the average cost in twenty twenty four was they said,
whoop woop oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
Thanks thanks for the listening. Five six nine.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
The average cost of going for the twenty twenty four
season ninety eight thousand dollars per person.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
That's a new Zealand dollars. That's insane, that's New Zealand dollars.

Speaker 4 (03:33):
Okay, And that's also you might not get to the
summit because of the weather and we could die or
you could not physically make it.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
Turn around, turn around, Yeah, yeah, I mean.

Speaker 4 (03:44):
I guess you're still even if you turned around close
to the summit, you're still.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Higher than you'd ever be. Oh, I know, but you
want to horrible you'd want to get to the top,
wouldn't you. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
And the prices, the prices very every year of just
like because now I didn't know this. Kine has opened
up its borders to regular international travel and climbing permits
are limited. So they're saying that's going to add a
whole lot more. And obviously it's a supply and demand thing,
as you said.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, they have averaged.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
However, many days are climbable to get to the top
the places you've got to be based.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yeah, and it's it'll get more expensive and price people out.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
But does that include all the stuff that you would
buy your south, your hoodies, your gloves.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
That's just what will cost you once you get there.
Because you get in there, I've got lots of hiking gear.
But I imagine the gear you have to weird climb ever,
top of the range kind of stuff. Yeah, jeers, And
you want to be light and warm, and yeah, I'd
probably go to the warehouse and get some new thermal
thermal knickers. You need, get a couple of warehouse Long Johns.

(04:53):
I'm sure a couple of pairs of Long John's.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
Definitely kept the old junk warm, junk warm when you're
up ever, definitely, that's number one priority. So today's Fact
of the Day is in twenty twenty four, the average
cost to climb Mount Everest is ninety eight thousand dollars.
Fact of the.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
Day, day day, day day.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
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