For an Indian climber, the permit alone is nearly 11 lakh rupees—but the true cost is that crowded ridge on summit day, where you pay with your dream. I turned back at the Hillary Step because the human traffic jam made it a frozen queue, not a climb. My own summit photo is just a blur of others' jackets; that bottleneck steals the mountain's soul. Nimage tilko, I saved my life but lost 11 lakhs to that chaos.
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