There are, by my count, some 40-odd teams heading for the summit this year. This includes commercial teams, teams for diabetes, teams for double amputees, teams from America, Russia, Poland, Spain (the most it looks like with five), Ecuador, Northern Ireland, South Korea, New Zealand, Australia, India and more. There are teams climbing for world peace, to put the first teenagers on the top and one huge group from the 7 Summits Club (said to have 30 clients and 43 support personal).
The going price for a commercial Everest expedition is around $65,000, a number that hasn’t changed dramatically over the past 10 years or so. You can do a three-week trek to ABC (Advanced Base camp at around 21,000 feet) for around $6,000 not counting airfare, etc.
The weather window — he said forecastingly — looks to be mid-May, but there will be earlier times (like this week) when the jet stream will be in an ideal position.
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