I've many gone without it times. It's true not definitely.
Chuck McCown wrote:
According to something I read tonight (perhaps wikipedia) doing it
without oxygen can give you permanent brain dablage.
*From:* Eric Kuhnke <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Sunday, May 22, 2016 8:36 PM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[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]
<mailto:[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.
