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by hermitcrab 143 days ago
Altitude sickness is also very unpredictable and sometimes hits the fittest people the worst.
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Indeed. A member of our trekking party of 12 or so got altitude sickness and had to be taken down to a lower altitude at around 14,000 feet. IRL he was a Canadian Mountie in great shape, in his mid-20s.