Reminds me of "To Build A Fire" in a way...sad all around but on way down? I read some are still missing.... On May 22, 2016 7:36 PM, "Chuck McCown" <[email protected]> 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. >
