How many steps are there to High Hrothgar and how do you come to your conclusion?

http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Seven_Thousand_Steps#cite_note-1

The numbers in the poll are quite set apart

I did notice the first time they were far from 7k but I hadn't expected as few as 748, feels like around 2k to me.

ma'iq said he counted them and it's 7000.

but then, he's ma'iq the liar.

or was that that dude in ivarstead anyway...?

hehe...

7,000, figuratively.

The other 6, 252 steps are buried under snow.

A task for the bord to try.

Start at High Hrothgar entrance and walk counting the steps until you reach 7000. I reckon that'll get you back to Whiterun!

Lore skyrim and ingame skyrim do not use the same scale so 7000.

There are 7,000. I don't limit myself to what I see in the game.

How many footsteps? Not steps, but actual footsteps?

"7000 steps" most likely =/= 7000 stairs. If you stepped back into third-person view and counted the number of steps he/she takes, it probably would be much closer to 7000. (But probably still far short of 7000.) But similar to the number of buildings in the towns and villages, what is shown is merely representative of the actual total

Sorry, stairs are "http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/stairs?showCookiePolicy=true".

I disagree. Even moreso, because in the german translation, they are talking about "Stufen" (steps in a stair), and not "Schritte" (the steps you make when you walk).

in der deutschen übersetzung hei?t ja auch whiterun "wei?lauf"......

das mit den steps ist eindeutig nur schlecht übersetzt (offenbar nur den text runterübersetzt ohne das ganze jemals im kontext des spiels anzuschauen)