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- From: czichon@psyche.csc.ti.com (Cary Czichon)
- Subject: Re: Invitation from Rockport
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.175902.14444@csc.ti.com>
- Keywords: Rockport, Kilamanjaro
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- References: <1992Dec15.230425.2793@csc.ti.com> <1992Dec20.025713.24993@news.media.mit.edu> <1992Dec21.113525.3018@ms.uky.edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 17:59:02 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.113525.3018@ms.uky.edu> cyeomans@ms.uky.edu (Charles Yeomans) writes:
- >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.
-
- Everyone reacts to large changes in altitude differently. Developing great
- cardiovascular strength doesn't guarantee immunity to AMS. By going from
- Kilimanjaro's base to its summit in one day and staying there through
- the night, most people would develop severe AMS or worse. An interesting
- book on altitude sickness is GOING HIGHER by Charles S. Houston, M.D. Lots
- of interesting stories.
-
- Cary Czichon
- czichon@csc.ti.com
-