The other problem people seem to forget is radiation. The Van Allen belts expose people to a lot of radiation; normally it's not a problem, because either peop

The other problem people seem to forget is radiation. The Van Allen belts expose people to a lot of radiation; normally it's not a problem, because either people stay under the belts (as in stations like the ISS which are at LEO), or for the few times humans went beyond LEO, to the Moon, they blasted through the belts very quickly and thus had negligible cumulative radiation exposure. But if you're sitting on a space elevator taking days to go through the VA belts, you'll probably get a fatal dose. Wikipedia has an article that touches on this here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator_safety https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator_safety