Want to climb mount Everest. Where do I start??

Take the Basic Mountaineering Course. Prepare yourself physically by having proper diet, enough sleep and exercise. Start hiking mountains near you and undergo training in alpine climbing. As an initial test, try Mt. Rainier or Mt. Cook. Then go for Mt. Denali in Alaska or any part of the Himalayas with a height of 5,000+ meters above sea level. If you survived these mountains, you are prepared for Mt. Everest.

Save enough money for these expensive climbs. To make it cheaper, join an expedition team by consulting a travel agency in Nepal or Katmandu.

Good luck! I share your dream.

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1. Just a grad student? If you are not physically active, get so...and stay that way. Think training for a triathlon in the Olympics.

for ex. Find the tallest building in your school or town. Get permission to have access to the stairwell. Start at the bottom and go up. When you reach the top, go back down again, and then go back up. I'm not kidding, like 30 stories or more would be great. When you can do 5 reps of this, start adding weight to a backpack, like 20 pounds, then 30, 40, etc. You'll soon see why you need to train for a long time. But it's your life on the line, and the mountain will kill you if you're not prepared. You need to be the Lance Armstrong of going up and down, because that's what you're going to do...only with half the oxygen you're using now with each breath.

2. Reading. Everything you can get your hands on about the mountain, survival, climbing. Learn to sleep outdoors in the cold in a tent. Try Yosemite in the winter.

3.Start with smaller trips, 4,000 footers. Then move up to the 10,000 foot peaks (the rockies). Try Mt Rainier and Mt Hood in Pac NW. You will need local guides and ice climbing training and experience on these which will serve you well on Everest.

4. Stick to it. Rome wasnt built in a day.

Start climbing, increasing with difficulties the mountains you climb. Try some stuff in the Sierra (14ers to see how you handle the altitude - although it's only about half of Everest; Whitney is an obvious one) and the Cascades (the volcanoes have glaciers on them and would be great training areas - Shasta, Rainier, Adams, Baker, etc.). Mt. Rainier in Washington is a must. Try going on some guided trips to learn how to climb on glaciers (Rainier Mountaineering, Inc. is good). Maybe go down to Mexico and climb Orizaba to see how you really do at altitude (it's almost 20,000 ft tall).

The links below are for some guides on big mountains, mountaineering sites, climbing conditioning, and climbing route descriptions.

You need to raise a lot of money. It costs a great deal to hire the porters and guides you will need to get to the base camps to scale the mountain.

Getting into top physical condition and getting experience in mountain climbing is also essential.

For many who climb Everest preparation is a lifetime enterprise, involving fund-raising and planning. It is also one of the most dangerous things you can do on this planet--weather on the mountain can be treacherous.

Learn as much as you can and climb as much as you can. Good luck.

You need to be in top condition to do it.

You must practice by climing other mountains to build up your skills.

A friend of mine climbed Everest a couple of years ago. It cost him $24,000 just for the climb, so you'd better start saving.

Find a reputable guide. Find out the cost, start saving and getting in shape. Learn mountain climbing skills and how you handle high altitude.

Save Save Save and then condition your body. My uncle just climbed Mt Rainer in July he said it was a life changing experience and he would never do it again. He did it for his like 59th birthday.

Good luck

you should start at the bottom of the mountain and go up.that way you can say you climbed the whole mountain.

looks to me like uve never climbed in yourlife ur gonna die climbing that mountain.