A California teen is in a medically induced coma after walking off a 120-foot slope right in front of his terrified father while hallucinating due to altitude sickness.
Altitude sickness is no joke, folks. If you’re coming from near sea level, please take any signs seriously.
Hiked up Whitney a long time ago with my then-girlfriend. She got altitude sickness about 2/3 way up, even though we had been careful staying overnight at the halfway point to acclimatize. She couldn’t wake up and get out of the tent. Wouldn’t eat or drink. I was worried about embolisms. We had to turn and head back down. It was pretty scary.
Read Krakauer’s Into Thin Air. You don’t want to mess around with altitude.
Hiked up Whitney a long time ago with my then-girlfriend. She got altitude sickness about 2/3 way up, even though we had been careful staying overnight at the halfway point to acclimatize. She couldn’t wake up and get out of the tent. Wouldn’t eat or drink. I was worried about embolisms. We had to turn and head back down. It was pretty scary.
Read Krakauer’s Into Thin Air. You don’t want to mess around with altitude.