# Elevator to the Top or Mt. Everest? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 29, 2019, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-to-the-top-or-mt-everest/834690 "2019-05-29T02:52:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-to-the-top-or-mt-everest/834690/21 "2019-05-30T02:36:21Z")
I assume there are probably practical limits to how high an elevator can be, based on - if nothing else - the sheer weight of the cables. The elevator will probably have to ascend in multiple stages. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-to-the-top-or-mt-everest/834690/22 "2019-05-30T02:46:29Z")
> [@MacSpon](#): > > I assume there are probably practical limits to how high an elevator can be, based on - if nothing else - the sheer weight of the cables. The elevator will probably have to ascend in multiple stages. Staging! ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-to-the-top-or-mt-everest/834690/23 "2019-05-30T12:40:51Z")
> [@MacSpon](#): > > I assume there are probably practical limits to how high an elevator can be, based on - if nothing else - the sheer weight of the cables. The elevator will probably have to ascend in multiple stages. Well, there are 5 camps. ---
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-to-the-top-or-mt-everest/834690/24 "2019-05-30T13:41:09Z")
I couldn’t listen to The Girl from Ipanema for that long. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-to-the-top-or-mt-everest/834690/25 "2019-05-30T13:58:36Z")
I don’t see how it could be an external elevator because of the weather and the snow/rock slides. To bore a shaft from the base all the way up to the summit seems like a fool’s errand to me. You’ve got to construct an elevator system that goes up the equivalent of almost 3,000 floors. ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2019, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-to-the-top-or-mt-everest/834690/26 "2019-05-31T03:30:11Z")
You know, as long as we’re hollowing out sections of the mountain to build an elevator, why not hollow out a _lot_ of the mountain, and make it an arcology? Who wouldn’t want to have their permanent address as, Mount Everest? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2019, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-to-the-top-or-mt-everest/834690/27 "2019-05-31T03:46:49Z")
> [@MacSpon](#): > > Who wouldn’t want to have their permanent address as, Mount Everest? 😃 Several hundred people already do. ---
**Author:** ![Ynnad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/4491bb/32.png) [@Ynnad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ynnad)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2019, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-to-the-top-or-mt-everest/834690/28 "2019-05-31T17:14:00Z")
> [@Patch](#): > > I couldn’t listen to The Girl from Ipanema for that long. 10 hours of the Girl From Ipanema: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/eFbKKsEoQNg/hqdefault.jpg "Girl from Ipanema 10hours (classical Version)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFbKKsEoQNg) ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2019, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-to-the-top-or-mt-everest/834690/29 "2019-05-31T20:42:43Z")
> [@Jasmine](#): > > I don’t see how it could be an external elevator because of the weather and the snow/rock slides. To bore a shaft from the base all the way up to the summit seems like a fool’s errand to me. You’ve got to construct an elevator system that goes up the equivalent of almost 3,000 floors. Sure but we already have an elevator that can go up 140 floors in a minute. With a full restaurant you would prefer to have people at various stages of coming and going so build 22 stages and it takes half an hour to travel the full distance, it would be part of the experience. Each floor could have music, a bar and snacks. The elevator isn’t the hard part of this idea. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2019, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-to-the-top-or-mt-everest/834690/30 "2019-05-31T21:11:21Z")
Each floor can have music, bar snacks AND TOILETS, ~VOW [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-to-the-top-or-mt-everest/834690.md?page=1)