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Even worse. There's the phenomenon that DSLRs are getting bigger & heavier the higher you climb up a mountain!

 

Back in the days I once carried an EOS 3, a Tokina 28-70mm f/2.8 and 100-300mm f/4 across a 5000m pass in the Himalayas - 3Kg or so. I think I had balls of steel back then. But no longer ...   :lol:

 

I'm still wondering how many mummies with (D)SLRs are hidden in the ice there because they didn't make it!

Wow, steel indeed. Just climbing 150 meters to 3718m - the top of the Teide peak on Tenerife - with all my gear at the time (Canon 1D Mark II N camera, 14/2.8, 16-35/2.8 and 70-200/2.8 lenses) was not an experience I'd like to repeat, and you went to 5000. I wonder what kind of gear I would carry next time I try for the mountains (3600 metres up in Karakorum was, in contrast, much easier, despite the fact that I was also carrying a beater 20D as the second body).

 

Maybe I should really stop sinking money into the DSLR system after all... nobody's getting younger anyway.