Doesn't it also take something like 3 times as long? They have to stop and acclimate for much longer and ate more worried about having a clear climb as spoof may prove to be preeminent. I think i saw that on some tv special with a couple of climber dudes.
On Sun, May 22, 2016, 10:06 PM Chuck McCown <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: > According to something I read tonight (perhaps wikipedia) doing it without > oxygen can give you permanent brain dablage. > *From:* Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuh...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Sunday, May 22, 2016 8:36 PM > *To:* af@afmug.com > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT Irony > There's a guy who is famous for climbing Everest without supplemental > oxygen, but he is almost certainly a training regimen maniac and biological > anomaly. > > He eats meat... > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhold_Messner > > On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 6:36 PM, Chuck McCown <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: > >> One of the Everest climbers that died from altitude sickness this week >> was a vegan on a mission to prove the vegans are as strong and robust as >> everyone else. Was attempting to prove the point by climbing mountains. >> >> I wonder if they are on oxygen all the way up and back down (above 15,000 >> feet or so)? That is a lot of oxygen. >> >> I know that if you neglect to put on your oxygen in a small plane, you go >> to sleep about 18,000. Happened to my wife once. I was too busy flying >> and complying to tell her I had left 13,000 for 23,000. She didn’t respond >> to gentle prodding or voice, so I put a cannula on her and she was fine a >> minute later. >> >> Everest is >29,000 feet. Hard to believe it can be done, even with >> oxygen. >> > >
