According to something I read tonight (perhaps wikipedia) doing it without oxygen can give you permanent brain dablage. From: Eric Kuhnke Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2016 8:36 PM To: [email protected] 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 <[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.
