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re: Watching "The Summit" on Netflix. Anyone else like high altitude climbing?
Posted on 2/25/15 at 6:27 am to NYNolaguy1
Posted on 2/25/15 at 6:27 am to NYNolaguy1
A few years ago I was with a group that spent time in the Andes. We went from sea level on the flight over to a parking lot at over 15,000 feet on the side of Mt. Cotopaxi the next day. Really bad idea, at least half the group was quite ill.
I do like being above timberline in Colorado and have done Long's Peak (14,256) several times but mostly just like to get above the trees. You feel like you are on top of the world. But I have enough sense to allow a few days to get used to higher altitude first.
I do like being above timberline in Colorado and have done Long's Peak (14,256) several times but mostly just like to get above the trees. You feel like you are on top of the world. But I have enough sense to allow a few days to get used to higher altitude first.
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Posted on 2/25/15 at 9:14 am to Tigris
Definitely. Longs peak is no joke mountain. That's another one that kills people every couple of years, mainly just from the sheer number of people that climb it. Also, a good number of those people have no business climbing either, so that doesn't help. Did you do the keyhole route or the loft route? That's one I have always wanted to climb.
Another recurring theme for mountain climbing is you need to know when to turn around. No mountain is worth your life or possibly the lives who would save you.
25 year old killed on keyhole route, Nov 2014, 3rd fatality that year
Another recurring theme for mountain climbing is you need to know when to turn around. No mountain is worth your life or possibly the lives who would save you.
25 year old killed on keyhole route, Nov 2014, 3rd fatality that year
This post was edited on 2/25/15 at 9:30 am
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