Did you know that the climbing fee on Everest is US$10,000? No wonder, being an Everest Climber is synonymous to being Big-time mountaineers.
Pastour quips, “Papatayin ka na magbabayad ka pa.
To our curiosity and surprise, Sir Art reveals that it’s quite easy to get a hoax certificate of climbing Mt. Everest.
“Ang ibang climbers namin may dala na ring certificate na naka-akyat na rin sila ng Everest kahit hindi pa. Bakit may certificate sila? Of course we just gathered them just to show that we can easily get the certificate.”
“Ang daming certificate dun,” Pastour exclaims!
Mt. Apo is our country’s highest peak standing tall at 10,311 feet. But did you know that the airport in Nepal actually stands higher than 13,000 feet tall?
As Pastour shares, “yung pinaka-mataas na bundok natin dito, mas mataas pa ang airport nila doon. Hindi considered na mountain ang Apo doon.”
Now this one gets really interesting… in their struggle against nature, how did they manage their own personal “call of nature?”
Pastour continues, “mahirap! Naka-pee bottle. Tapos tapon agad. Pag ‘di mo tinapon, in less than 30 mins, titigas yan so wala ka nang ihian.
And when it comes to you know, releasing the undigested, “I-timing mo na. Kailangan mo i-timing ‘pag may araw. Kasi sobrang lamig. Grabe ang sakripisyo dun eh.”
If you prefer --- Picture this! Wastes should be securely disposed to a cellophane container and regularly brought to the garbage deposit in the base camp to avoid contamination in the rest of the camps. Take note, the amount of these wastes is in dollars/kilogram.
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