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>At roughly nine thousand three hundred feet above sea level (~2800M) I heard Antarctica on average very high above sea level. So I would think just the thinn

by jmclnx 8mo ago

>At roughly nine thousand three hundred feet above sea level (~2800M) I heard Antarctica on average very high above sea level. So I would think just the thinness of the air would make baking rather hard compared to sea level. Sadly I will not be able go there. 40 years ago, when I when was at around 6000 feet above sea level on a trip, I was getting dizzy when moving around :) Sea level is were I was born and were I will stay.

jcranmer 8mo ago
It should be noted that because of the effect of the poles on the atmosphere (the atmosphere is intrinsically thinner near the poles), the surface pressure is even lower, so that it feels like about 11k feet in altitude rather than 9k feet in altitude. (See, e.g. https://brr.fyi/posts/pressure-altitude https://brr.fyi/posts/pressure-altitude.)
- cozzyd 8mo ago
  Yes, the pressure altitude varies significantly and you can feel the higher altitude days pretty easily...
codingdave 8mo ago
Bodies acclimate. You'll go up in altitude one day and get quite sick, then the next day or another day you'll be fine. Spend a week there and you'll feel better. Drink water, stay hydrated, and it will go more smoothly. So unless somebody found something specifically atypical about your body, don't reject all mountains in the world because of one bad day 40 years ago.
- lproven 8mo ago
  > Bodies acclimate. Absolutely -- and at different rates. I have had severe asthma since puberty. After a decade of suffering, good drugs arrived around the turn of the century, and I've been well controlled since and I've been pretty active. But I am better at altitude. I have narrow obstructed tubes in my lungs. Thinner air flows through them more easily. The higher I am (on land, obviously) the more easily and efficiently I can breathe. In the old days, asthma clinics were located up mountains for this reason. I like spending time at altitude. Thinner air means more oxygen for me, which means I feel better and can be more active. If I could live 3-4 km up all the time, without vast expense in somewhere tiny, I would.

by jmclnx 8mo ago

jcranmer 8mo ago

It should be noted that because of the effect of the poles on the atmosphere (the atmosphere is intrinsically thinner near the poles), the surface pressure is even lower, so that it feels like about 11k feet in altitude rather than 9k feet in altitude. (See, e.g. https://brr.fyi/posts/pressure-altitude https://brr.fyi/posts/pressure-altitude.)

cozzyd 8mo ago
Yes, the pressure altitude varies significantly and you can feel the higher altitude days pretty easily...

codingdave 8mo ago

Bodies acclimate. You'll go up in altitude one day and get quite sick, then the next day or another day you'll be fine. Spend a week there and you'll feel better. Drink water, stay hydrated, and it will go more smoothly. So unless somebody found something specifically atypical about your body, don't reject all mountains in the world because of one bad day 40 years ago.

lproven 8mo ago
> Bodies acclimate. Absolutely -- and at different rates. I have had severe asthma since puberty. After a decade of suffering, good drugs arrived around the turn of the century, and I've been well controlled since and I've been pretty active. But I am better at altitude. I have narrow obstructed tubes in my lungs. Thinner air flows through them more easily. The higher I am (on land, obviously) the more easily and efficiently I can breathe. In the old days, asthma clinics were located up mountains for this reason. I like spending time at altitude. Thinner air means more oxygen for me, which means I feel better and can be more active. If I could live 3-4 km up all the time, without vast expense in somewhere tiny, I would.