#13 Private Moment - Kenton Cool: How much does it cost to climb Everest?
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Peter Cowley
4.8 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back, it's Monday and time for another Private Moment!
This week we have a few clips from our episode with Kenton Cool, one of Britain's leading alpine and high altitude climbers who has reached the summit of Mount Everest sixteen times...yes, SIXTEEN. We chat all about how much it really costs to climb Mount Everest, just how difficult it really is and the mindset required to be able to summit.
If you enjoyed this clip remember to listen to the full episode here...and also have a listen to our bonus episode on Wednesday with Richard Walker. Richard will be talking all about his expedition to Everest with Kenton to support people living with Dementia.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, welcome to your private moments. These are the moments where we go back into |
| 0:08.9 | our archive of all of our podcasts and we pick out our little special moments and today |
| 0:12.9 | we have our moment with Kenton Cool. Kenton is one of the leading UK explorers. He's |
| 0:18.3 | climbed Everest about 16 times and in the episode today we talk about how much it costs to |
| 0:24.8 | summit Everest. It's unbelievable. Kenton's amazing. He's actually on Everest at the moment with |
| 0:32.0 | one of our guest Richard Walker. So anyway, here is the episode with Kenton Cool. Now if you like |
| 0:37.4 | the episode, you can click the link in the bio in the description and that will take you to the |
| 0:40.8 | full episode. So enjoy our private moment. If you don't realize the cost of like climbing Everest |
| 0:47.1 | or things like that, how much does it cost typically to climb Everest? So Everest is going to be |
| 0:51.2 | anywhere between about $35,000 and the sky is a limit. So the most expensive single operator on |
| 0:57.1 | the mountain right now is Nims because of his reputation and he just went stratospheric with his Netflix |
| 1:02.9 | thingy and then it's probably me. I'm not a cheap operator on that mountain because I'm working |
| 1:09.7 | them. And how many times a year will you do that? Just one time. I work with one client at any one time, |
| 1:14.5 | bespoke the expedition and that comes out of price and it's significantly more than 35,000. |
| 1:21.3 | So how much is it going? If I'm asking you, if I say to you, can I go and Kenton, |
| 1:27.1 | you and I, we're going to climb Everest together and I want to climb. |
| 1:30.1 | I'm very glad you did sign a lucrative book deal. |
| 1:32.9 | Right, absolutely. So it's got the watch. |
| 1:35.5 | I want to climb Everest with you. And I want to do your only time and I want to do in 2024, |
| 1:41.1 | what are you charging me? Right, that's fantastic because it gives us a lead time because it's a |
| 1:44.3 | project fee for training and all that. So minimum is starting price about $300,000. |
| 1:52.1 | Wow. That is insane. But also that is insane cheap. |
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