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hermitcrablast Monday at 2:34 PM1 replyview on HN

Altitude sickness is also very unpredictable and sometimes hits the fittest people the worst.


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bookofjoelast Monday at 2:43 PM

Indeed. A member of our trekking party of 12 or so got altitude sickness and had to be taken down to a lower altitude at around 14,000 feet. IRL he was a Canadian Mountie in great shape, in his mid-20s.