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Sorry for this slightly off-topic post.
There is a book that will give you a feel for the thin air and danger above "the death zone" of 8,000 meters. You will literally feel like you are starving for air just reading it. John Krakauer's "Into Thin Air" about a disastrous Everest expedition where several people died, and one man literally rose from the dead and stumbled back into camp in a storm 12 hours after he was left in the snow by potential rescuers who thought he was beyond hope.
A very good and exciting read. Don't watch the movie which was not good, read the book instead.
The conditions are so brutal above 8,000 meters that dead climbers are left where they drop, and it is normal to pass frozen remains on the way to the summit, because no one has the energy to bring them down.
For reference, the average human will pass out in about 30 seconds without oxygen if flying and the jet loses pressurization above 8,000 meters.
There is a book that will give you a feel for the thin air and danger above "the death zone" of 8,000 meters. You will literally feel like you are starving for air just reading it. John Krakauer's "Into Thin Air" about a disastrous Everest expedition where several people died, and one man literally rose from the dead and stumbled back into camp in a storm 12 hours after he was left in the snow by potential rescuers who thought he was beyond hope.
A very good and exciting read. Don't watch the movie which was not good, read the book instead.
The conditions are so brutal above 8,000 meters that dead climbers are left where they drop, and it is normal to pass frozen remains on the way to the summit, because no one has the energy to bring them down.
For reference, the average human will pass out in about 30 seconds without oxygen if flying and the jet loses pressurization above 8,000 meters.
