The climbing permit itself is around 40-50 lakh rupees, a staggering sum that makes me think of my daughter's entire engineering degree fees ten times over! The bottleneck? It’s not just the weather window, but commercial expeditions clustering schedules, creating a traffic jam where there should be only mountain. From my army days, I learned that even the best plan fails without disciplined pacing — seeing queues on the Hillary Step feels like a civilian disregard for that. My own training on the slopes of Sikkim taught me that the mountain demands respect, not a rushed timetable.
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