HAHAHA! Excellent!
‘Course, it would have to be pressurized.
Though we can not make light of just how inhospitable it really is up there, I think we really are headed in that direction. I think the only thing stopping it is the politics of the area it’s in. If it were in the US, there would already be a Trump tower there. Maybe not at the top, but at various way points on the way to the top. Solar and wind powered, of course. :)
The closest environment to that of Mars is the top of Everest. Let’s see them put a settlement there at the top of the mountain and resupply it from low earth orbit.
Rescue climbers at a million bucks each as a side business.