The most difficult part of this whole trip has to be working out exactly what kit we'll need to bring up the bloody mountain. Obviously not from a carrying it point of view, because we wont be. Some 7 stone whippet will carry our blissfully ignorantly packed rucksacks up 19000ft on his head while committing to memory stories about the four oxygen deprived crying loons he had to push up the mountain!!!!
Anyway depending on which site or company you look at, you should either spend the USA military budget on gear, or else run up naked and hope the built up body heat will last long enough to get back down again. In fact after a quick bit of maths, and by quick I mean 3 days, an excel spread sheet and a scientific calculator, the gear the site I linked to at the end of this page would only set you back €1233.00. I am however going to leave the link as it has lovely pictures...
In our cases we managed to get our fleeces and base layers at cost price from GILL, a sailing gear manufacturer. We know as much about sailing as we do about trekking so it seemed perfect. We then discovered you can hire all the weird stuff you might need from the tour company. So now we wont have €200 jackets for -20deg lying under walking poles hiding in a corner of our respective attics. So all in all it'll cost us about €33 for gear. A cool saving of €13589.36 by my maths. We can now be hired as gear purchasing consultants....
It should be noted that bar the boots and one base layer, Ash seems to already have all the gear he'll need lying around at home... Very suspect!!!
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