You should read Jon Krakauer's "/Into Thin Air/". It's a first hand
account of a climb up Everest back in 1996. It goes into some of those
details about oxygen starvation, and the cold. There are parts that he
doesn't remember and/or has a partial memory of. Quite a good read.
http://www.amazon.com/Into-Thin-Air-Personal-Disaster/dp/0385494785
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On 5/22/2016 6:36 PM, Chuck McCown 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.
