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		hermitcrab 28 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nepal's Mountainside Teahouses Elevate the Experie... Altitude sickness is also very unpredictable and sometimes hits the fittest people the worst.

bookofjoe 28 days ago [–]

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.

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