Bethesda's associate art director really did try to fit 7,000 actual steps into Skyrim's 7,000 Steps: 'I take no responsibility for the Frost Troll'

When the Greybeards invite you to High Hrothgar in Skyrim, you have to climb a mountain to reach them. There's a messenger called Klimmek waiting in the village of Ivarstead at the bottom to warn you what an arduous journey this is going to be. To get to the top of the Throat of the World, he says, you have to work your way up The 7,000 Steps. It's well-documented that there aren't actually 7,000 steps carved into the side of the mountain.