I am amazed at how many individuals on the net are off climbing almost every year to remote locations worldwide! I can understand how professional guides, sponsored by firms like North Face can spend each year on expeditions to Antarctica or the Hindu Kush, but there are many individuals who post that seem to find the $40,000 to go to the Polar Regions, or $60,000 to try ascents in Tibet, or other remote areas.
In all my 58 years of climbing I never found that kind of money or time to run off to places I read about. Are you people out there independently wealthy, have professions paying you $200,000+ a year, or are you robbing banks in your spare time?
If you are married I suspect that either your spouse is very broad minded about your leisure pastime, accompanies you because they love the same pastime, or has a lover on the side while you are off to Baffin Island or Pantagonia.
Between working in logging to pay my way through college, raising a family, military service, and being an educator for thirty two years I never could find more than three weeks at a time to be off climbing, and never enough money to take off to anywhere outside the U.S. and Canada.
What are your secrets for participating in multiple expeditions to the far reaches of the world!