User blog comment:Jimeee/There are only 748 steps to High Hrothgar. Yeah, I counted./@comment-2600:387:1:802:0:0:0:68-20180123204952

Maybe there were 7000 steps in the time of Tiber Septim, but a large portion have since crumbled to ruin. But the residents of skyrim still call it the 7000 steps because that's what they've been calling it for centuries.