I have no mountain climbing experience. Which is why I set my goal to attempt it in 7 years. I was hoping some one who has actually done it would chime in and tell me if that is not enough time to prepare.

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I will be blunt. You are basically saying you want to do IM Hawaii, when you have not even done a triathlon. I don't think anyone who has any experience in the mountains would take this seriously.

I am not trying to belittle your goal, but if you have not climbed anything yet, how do you even know if you have any interests in climbing and what it takes and/or understand the risks? Until you are on an actual mountain when things start to get a little bit difficult I don't thnk you can even begin to appreciate the risks.

This is my advice, as someone who has some interest in doing some largers mountains and is already partly along my journey (I have done 5 CO 14ers, Hood, Rainier, Grand Teton, Shasta, Kilimanjaro and dozens of peaks in the Northeast, including Mt. Washington in the winter). Get hooked up with some climbers or a club, or take a good 5-7 day mountaineering course then do some 14ers in Colorado or California and a few easier Cascade volcanoes (Hood, Shasta) and then think about your goal some more. After that I think you would realistically want to do Rainier (something harder than the DC route), some South American Volcanoes, a few peaks in Andes over 20,000 feet (probably Aconcongua to get some higher altitude). Then Denali and then you would be in a position where you would really be ready to think about Everest and understand what it is about.

Compared to the danger and cost of Everest you can have an entire lifetime of incredible climbing. That seems like a way better idea to me. Of course Everest is very sexy and tall, so it may still keep calling you.