I have been over 10,000 feet elevation, during the time I lived in Denver Colorado. Denver is the Mile High City, at 5000+ feet, but I went up to the Rocky Mountains a few times where the peaks are much higher.
Getting up there is a big long chore of driving. I already did not feel too well a Denver’s elevation, and never completely acclimated to it. Five years later when I found out about the genetic condition of my heart I was told not to go above 8000 feet on a list of things not to do.
When I told my doctor I had been to 14,000, he said I must have felt horrible up there.
I did not feel horrible, I felt drunk, deluded and had an upset stomach.
I have been twice to the top of Mt Evans on the highest paved road in the us. Both times at about 12000 feet, I lost a lot of my brain power and reason.
Luckily I was never the driver as I would have wrecked the car. Neat the top, thereare alot of cars pulled over as the drivers are trying to recover and continue up of down.
I worked with a guy in Denver who was trying to climb all of the “Fourteeners” in the State of Colorado. He told me he always threw up on the summit if not on the way up and the way down.
I think humans are not made to be up there.
My post is for the #freewrite daily challenge by 