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- From: cyeomans@ms.uky.edu (Charles Yeomans)
- Subject: Re: Invitation from Rockport
- Keywords: Rockport, Kilamanjaro
- References: <1992Dec15.201334.20390@oakhill.sps.mot.com>
- <1992Dec15.230425.2793@csc.ti.com>
- <1992Dec20.025713.24993@news.media.mit.edu>
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.113525.3018@ms.uky.edu>
- Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 16:35:25 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec20.025713.24993@news.media.mit.edu> geek@media.mit.edu (Chris Schmandt) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec15.230425.2793@csc.ti.com> czichon@psyche.csc.ti.com (Cary Czichon) writes:
- >>Is their training program supposed to allow acclimatization to 19,340 feet in
- >>one day? Amazing! Can you spell cerebral edema? I knew you could.
- >
- >I'm not defending Rockport's one day "assault" on kilimanjaro, but the
- >reading that I did after getting pulmonary edema in Colorado was that
- >it usually takes 2-3 days before edema sets in seriously. In my case,
- >I ascended from sea level, where I live, to about 12K feet the same
- >day, and remained near that altitude for 4 nights; my symptoms got
- >pronounced only on the last night.
- >
- >But I'm not a doctor nor an expert.
- >
- Isn't this how, for example, Messner climbed Denali in a day? As I
- undersatnd it, he went up to 14,000 ft and hung out for several days,
- then went to the summit and back in a day.
-
- Charles Yeomans
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