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Garrett Madison has mastered Mt. Everest. He's summited the world's tallest peak 14 times, and led more than 80 other climbers to the top.
He makes it look easy. And that's partly because it's not even the most challenging mountain he's climbed.
This year, he embarked on his ninth K2 expedition. And K2 is "definitely harder than Everest by many measures," he told Business Insider.
K2 "has been called the mountaineer's peak, whereas Everest has become more of an amateur climber's peak," he added.
Over the last 23 years, the number of people climbing above Mt. Everest's base camp has nearly doubled, according to Alan Arnette, a Mt. Everest summiter and climbing coach who writes a blog about the mountain.
Reaching the top of Mt. Everest was once a feat that only the world's most skilled mountaineers could accomplish. In the 1990s, only a few dozen people would summit per year, the Kathmandu Post reported.
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Nowadays, hundreds of people stand atop the world's highest peak each year. In 2023, roughly 600 climbers summited Mt. Everest, Arnette reported. For comparison, by 2023, only an estimated 689 people had ever summited K2, according to Climbing Magazine.
In fact, so many climbers are flocking to Mt. Everest that the mountain is suffering from overcrowding. During the 2019 climbing season, a long queue of people stretched down from the summit, each waiting for their turn to stand atop the peak.
That's not to say that anyone can, or should, climb Mt. Everest. It's still a dangerous feat. But you don't have to be a world-class mountaineer, like Madison, to do it. That's partly because the booming climbing tourism industry in Nepal has driven down the cost of an Everest expedition, opening the door to hobbyists and adventure-seekers, PBS reported in 2019.
The average cost to climb Everest in 2024 was about $55,000, according to pricing data from ExpedReview.
Meanwhile, Madison and other advanced climbers go searching for greater challenges. He just achieved his second "triple crown," what some consider to be the world's ultimate high-altitude mountaineering prize.
Only a few climbers have summited the Everest region's triple crown. These three peaks, Mt. Everest, Mt. Lhotse, and Mt. Nuptse, are highly dangerous. And to earn the crown, mountaineers have to climb all three in a single season.
Even though Everest is the tallest of these three mountains, it's not the most challenging to climb, Madison said.
"Generally Everest, as the highest peak, garners all of our attention, right? And we have assumed that it's the hardest peak. But just because it's the highest, doesn't mean it's necessarily the hardest," he said.
For example, Mt. Nuptse is roughly 3,000 feet shorter than Mt. Everest, but
Hundreds of New Yorkers and tristate elites flock to the Hamptons every summer. According to real-estate agent Jonothan Yarton, some even rent mansions for between $50,000 and $1 million a month.
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