# What about climbing Everest in a spacesuit?

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**Created:** [March 20, 2012, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-climbing-everest-in-a-spacesuit/616357 "2012-03-20T22:31:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-climbing-everest-in-a-spacesuit/616357/2 "2012-03-20T23:09:24Z")

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Can you even walk in a spacesuit in normal Earth gravity? It seems the mobility limitation alone would be the biggest issue.

I saw some proposals for skin-tight “Mars suits” a few years ago, the environment was still self-contained, but unlike a space suit it could dispense with a ton of the equipment (Mars having a thin atmosphere) and make for a much lighter suit.

Here’s an article with photo: [http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/21/us-argentina-nasa-spacesuit-idUSTRE72K56M20110321](http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/21/us-argentina-nasa-spacesuit-idUSTRE72K56M20110321)

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