[wardaddy]

You’d be surprised

I spend at least a month a year up high

Two remedial open hearts and a pacemaker

And I function fine in Santa Fe and Aspen and Gunnison even Leadville and Alma and West Yellowstone

Give yourself a day or two to acclimate before you jog Argentine Pass near Leadville

Or Mosquito Pass

I go pretty high for me. 13,500

I wouldn’t want to live there but I do surprisingly well

And if I dropped dead

Prolly second best way aside from dying while cracking

That or sailing a nice Swan into the wave of the century

When younger I walked/climbed the Sierra Nevada near Santa Marta and some lesser peaks around Guat and Nica and Bolivia

I used to smoke marlboros at 17500

Got a bit light headed

I’ve seen tapes of Yosemite hippies on El Cap nose drinking and smoking herb and cigarettes while tied off or wall camping like that pic up thread

Crazier still is a film I saw with a Russian super aplinist on K2 or Annapurna smoking Russian non filtered cigarettes at 24-25,000 feet

Humans can do a whole lot

Most of the early white climbers and all the Sherpas smoked cigs back in the woolen and hemp era

[Mr. Mojo]

Some folks just don’t do well at high altitude. I’m one of them. Camped out at 11,000 ft. in the Sierras for about a week and had a helluva time acclimating. Hiking was real tough. So I spent more time fishing.

I just shake my head in amazement at a guy like Reinhold Messner, who was the first to scale all 14 peaks over 26,000 in the Himalayas without supplemental oxygen.

[wardaddy]

C41-43

[T-Bone Texan]

I smoked pot on top of Mt. Whitney once, which was probably not wise, and had to descend in the dark.

That is my sole claim to fame.

During a solo attempt at Mt. Tyndall and Mt. Williamson I got a nosebleed that lasted for two days. It just would not stop. I can still taste it in my throat. It ruined the trip, and the attempt.