How do I prepare to summit the tallest mountains on earth ? I can already lift 1/2/3/4 for reps but my endurance is not great. I guess a ton of cardio would be needed as well as some basic rock climbing skills ? Anybody have any experience in this field ?
How do I prepare to summit the tallest mountains on earth...
Sebastian Gomez
Matthew Bennett
Get one of those gay elevation masks
Bentley Turner
good resources for this specifically:
>training for the new alpinism
>rob shaul (arguably, but he's clearly thought about it)
>mark twight (see also: rob shaul)
for conditioning generally:
>joel jamieson
>tactical barbell (yes, srs, ignore the gay marketing)
search archive for pdfs
nah
Angel Hill
How capable you may be in lifting weights is negligible in all fairness mate. In summiting some real mountains you will need fantastic cardio, endurance, and most importantly the ability to acclimatise to heights that you’ve never been to.
Do not take it lightly and think it’s just another hill. People have died from lack of preparation and by over estimating their ability and competence. Prepare yourself and train up from smaller peaks.
John Jones
thanks guys, I will definitely try to start small. I just dont really know what that means exactly. I live in europe and the closest "tall" mountain would be the Zugspitze at almost 3000m above sea level. Can a beginner do that ?
Dominic Cook
Yeah I've climbed 6/7 summits. Did Everest in May this year.
Endurance-wise, I'd probably suggest HIIT with longer sessions of very-uphill fast walking with a (eventually) 40 lbs weight vest. I'd consider doing this fasted sometimes, simply because being mentally capable of maintaining aerobic intensity even when you're feeling shitty is important.
Ama
Dylan Foster
I’ve just got one question. How much did Everest cost you?
Isaac James
How does one get used to high elevation ?
Did you join a climbing gym or how did you get the skills necessary to summit Everest ?
What was the first mountain you summited and how tough was it ?
Did you start alone or did you have a group of friends to learn with ?
Elijah Young
Zugspitzr is really Nice. Its not hard, it is a klettersteig though. It might be smart to buy a set Just to be in the safe side bc with the snow it can het slippery. A full set with a harnass is pretty exspe sive though.
Caleb Ramirez
Read kokou no hito
Brody Anderson
Another user here, you only need to know basic crampon and ice axe handling.. Mostly jumar up hard parts as you most likely will go w expedition full of solid sharpas and elite level athletes setting up fixed ropes all route.. Be careful, Everest is a fuckfest full of morons who will clog up hard parts because they can't climb 5.6.. Go for a less frequented 8k peak instead.. Or learn to climb alpine style
Jace Brooks
There's a lot of components.
Base cost of the trip was $65000. I paid $12,500 for a personal Sherpa and extra oxygen. Gear was around $5-6k. Tips for Sherpas was $2500 irrc. I flew down to Namche after acclimating for a few days, I think that was $1k. Flew off of base camp for $2k. Add in hotel, flight to Kathmandu, PT sessions and around $100,000 is a pretty good guess for Everest.
Alexander Nguyen
Go to slightly less high mountains. I also used an altitude tent.
Rock climbing skills don't have to be that high, but you should have general experience from other mountains.
What counts as a mountain? Kilimanjaro is basically a cakewalk, aside from the fact that I had AMS from a shitty, rapid, 3 day ascent not bad.
I did Kili with my dad and used expedition teams from then on.
Connor Reed
This is basically correct. You're jumaring like crazy. You probably should have some basic-ass rock climbing experience but yeah you don't need to be great.
Dylan Campbell
"Training for the New Alpinism" is kind of just a lot of broscience anecdotes
James Foster
Is greenboots still up there I heard they threw him off
Same for Hillary step, read somewhere that it got blown off or something
Is there really a line of a few hundred people to the summit now
Isaiah Price
I didn't see green boots.
I'm pretty sure the Hillary step is gone. As in, at no point was I aware of any particular scramble or anything else that would resemble it on summit day. And if you were to tell me "you just passed the Hillary step" I'd have no idea it'd have otherwise happened.
My guides have been up twice since the Earthquake and haven't seen it. For whatever reason Nepalese officials (who have not fucking climbed above base camp for shit) are still like "LMFAO no the step is there!!! It's covered in snow"
So yeah, I think it's more a "Hillary slope" at this point.
There's no line of hundreds of people. The ridgeline that's the last 2 hours to the summit is extremely exposed though so if someone were to get stuck it's really fucking hard to pass. You don't need to have much traffic though to make it really shitty- get more than 5 people going slowly ahead of you and it can get dangerous to shitty
Daniel Wood
did you feel different once you stood on top of the tallest mountain on earth ? was it a life goal or yours ? I imagine it must feel great to conquer Everest and come back down safely to tell the tale.
Angel Myers
In a way, no. I recognize some people make a huge deal of it, but I've really always intended it to just be a chapter of my life.
There was a sort of surreal feeling when you're around 200, 300 feet away and you can clearly see the summit not as a far-away speck but as a place where not-speck people are standing. And it's not "there's the summit" it's "holy shit that's the highest point on Earth"- you'll look left and look right and it's clear everything else is lower than where you're going.
Weather was beautiful on the day we summited, but I still had this unshakeable feeling of unease, probably rightly so.
Shit can turn badly really fucking quickly and there's this really dodgy ridgeline that's very exposed and difficult to navigate- you get 30 people trying to go down as the weather turns and you could easily get fucked up. Takes maybe 2 hours to navigate with minimal traffic, but weather turns and you get heavy traffic? That's when you run out of O2, get frostbite and die.
So no, I didn't feel enlightenment on reaching the summit. Really it hits you more once you safely get down to camp IV.
Hunter Murphy
Yeah if you didn't "notice" the step then it's gone
You can't just pass by it since it takes 10-20mins to get over it just before the summit
Oliver Howard
I'm just giving the greatest possible benefit of the doubt to it since the special Ed Nepalese still seem to think it's there under snow
Dominic Robinson
I recently got into Everest and fuck it's like an area of no return
I'd imagine looking at it in purpose would be ominous as fuck
Saw some pictures of the summit and it looks like a trash pile
And south/north col, don't know which exactly is littered with bottles
Aiden Carter
Annapurna one is only slightly shorter than Everest and has a 38/100 death rate so have fun with your plan.
Juan Turner
take the messner pill and just chillax
Wyatt Perry
I doubt an autist that stayed in his room most of his life is prepared for that challenge. Prepare to suffer but if you do it and succeed, consider yourself above humans like zyzz, piana, bill gates, jesus and donald trump.
Jose Richardson
This is the most depressing picture I've ever seen.
Josiah Hughes
fug
Nolan Myers
1/2/3/4 doesn’t correlate well to editable activities such as this.
I reccomend calisthenics and a lot of em, a lot of static holds and high reps, long workouts. Also find some rock climbing and/or Ariel courses near you
Gabriel Rogers
There are 6 peaks at annapurna massif, south face and 3 are much harder than annapurna I. It's dangerous because of frequent avalanches. The fatality does not include early quitters, it's deaths per summits
K2 has only some 350 summits too and 84 fatalities.
Brandon James
How did you acquire the funds necessary for such an expedition?
Daniel Foster
>paying 100k to walk up a hill
Brayden Wood
imagine getting to the top but you're only allowed 3 seconds because the next guy is waiting behind you
Justin Young
Lifting translates very poorly to mountaineering.
I've climbed Everest in 2012 with an international expedition via the Nepalese route. If you're interested in Everest you're going to need some mountaineering experience first. Also money doesn't hurt.
Getting a good sherpa can save your life.
Kevin Morris
>paying for a sherpa
>tipping
Ayden Stewart
Josiah Lopez
Training: cardio's important, as is a strong core. Alpinists aren't typically bulky - think endurance athletes.
Backpacking experience's important - try some smaller, non-technical hikes w/elevation change. Rock-climbing could be good, although the "tallest mountains on earth" are glaciated year-round so want to be comfortable moving over glacier (rope-team travel, ice axe/self-arrest skills, etc).
So: get comfortable hiking, camping. Find a guide/experienced partners for your first real (under-glacier) mountain.
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