Planning Your Retirement Journey Step 3: Prepare for the Risks of Your Route So far in this blog series, we’ve talked about Step 1: Choosing Your Retirement Mountain and Step 2: Mapping Your Route. Now it’s time to do a quick reality check and consider some of the...
Planning Your Retirement Journey Step 2: Mapping Your Route To summit Mount Everest, climbers have a choice of 18 different routes that previous expeditions have proven possible. Commercial expeditions take one of two traditional routes: the Northeast Ridge or...
Planning Your Retirement Journey Step 1: Choosing Your Mountain When a reporter asked George Mallory, one of the first mountaineers to attempt Mt. Everest, why he wanted to climb to the highest point in the world, he famously responded: “Because it’s there.” You’re...
Getting Off the Retirement Mountain Safely: Introducing Your Sherpa Team Few people know that it is only in the last 100 years that anyone, sherpas included, would have considered climbing Mount Everest. By local families around the base of Mount Everest, it was...
