I've done Pisco in Peru (5772m, 18,937ft), failed a summit of Orizaba and Chimborazo (made it over 20,000 feet but had splitting headache and felt really sick), and made it up Cotopaxi (5897m, 19,347 ft). I came close to dying on the way down Chimbo because i was a bit disoriented and really fatigued. Made a mistake and almost paid for it.
It takes so much energy to climb in that low O2 air that you just lose everything. Most people aren't used to 12+ hours of any kind of exercise, much less carrying a decent amount of weight when your body isn't digesting food right and you can't retain water well. Add it all up, and you make mistakes or just slip at the wrong time. It's a dangerous sport. These are risks you take.
I know this is going to be viewed somewhat as flamebait, but to put it bluntly, doctors are mechanics for the human body. No more, no less. The vast, overwhelming majority of doctors have little to no true scientific training, any more so than a business person or Joe the Plumber. Even those doctors doing active medical research have limited scientific faculties IMO, having heard about this stereotype from others, read about on the internet, and dealt with it myself. Therefore, when it comes to scientific interpretation, anything coming from a doctor's mouth should be taken with at least a grain of salt, if not a shakerful.
They may not be scientists, and they may not have a whole lot of scientific training, but they HAVE had more training and exposure to science than Joe the Plumber. To say otherwise is to be dishonest. And the next sentence, "...doctors doing active medical research have limited scientific faculties..." is totally unfounded. What you've heard from your friends who didn't understand what somebody told them or what you read on the internet are all anecdotes. You think docs are DUMB because they are doing research?? Indeed, take everything you hear FROM ANYONE with a grain of salt, but don't use that as your justification to mock people who are, for the most part, trying really hard and doing the best they can.
It's the same as the "amalgam dental fillings cause xxxxxxxx...." stories. Never mind that after those patients have their fillings taken out at huge expense and recover (placebo effect) and go on 60 minutes and look great, they then relapse and are way worse off a few months later. You'll almost never see a retraction of the original story.
Those zombie archers were tough. But if you blocked at the right time and wall jumped right, you could make it, take out each one in turn while not getting knocked off, and get up. It only took me about 10 tries. One of the big problems I had was that the saves were too far apart for a game that hard. I'm at the point in chapter 15 where you have to fight 3 mini-bosses + minions in a row, then take on the level boss creature (not the emperor). It takes like 15 or 20 minutes to beat them all, and then I die on the boss b/c i didn't save enough health bottles during the rest of the game. I've done that like 20 times. Really. There were some bosses I died somewhere north of 30 times fighting. And it's not like I'm terrible at the game. I just wouldn't have much health left by the time I got to them.
I've died literally hundreds of times playing that game, which is the only one I can say that about.
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I've done Pisco in Peru (5772m, 18,937ft), failed a summit of Orizaba and Chimborazo (made it over 20,000 feet but had splitting headache and felt really sick), and made it up Cotopaxi (5897m, 19,347 ft). I came close to dying on the way down Chimbo because i was a bit disoriented and really fatigued. Made a mistake and almost paid for it. It takes so much energy to climb in that low O2 air that you just lose everything. Most people aren't used to 12+ hours of any kind of exercise, much less carrying a decent amount of weight when your body isn't digesting food right and you can't retain water well. Add it all up, and you make mistakes or just slip at the wrong time. It's a dangerous sport. These are risks you take.
Also likely has something to do with alkalotic blood. As you breathe in high altitude, the pH of your blood rises.
I know this is going to be viewed somewhat as flamebait, but to put it bluntly, doctors are mechanics for the human body. No more, no less. The vast, overwhelming majority of doctors have little to no true scientific training, any more so than a business person or Joe the Plumber. Even those doctors doing active medical research have limited scientific faculties IMO, having heard about this stereotype from others, read about on the internet, and dealt with it myself. Therefore, when it comes to scientific interpretation, anything coming from a doctor's mouth should be taken with at least a grain of salt, if not a shakerful.
They may not be scientists, and they may not have a whole lot of scientific training, but they HAVE had more training and exposure to science than Joe the Plumber. To say otherwise is to be dishonest. And the next sentence, "...doctors doing active medical research have limited scientific faculties..." is totally unfounded. What you've heard from your friends who didn't understand what somebody told them or what you read on the internet are all anecdotes. You think docs are DUMB because they are doing research?? Indeed, take everything you hear FROM ANYONE with a grain of salt, but don't use that as your justification to mock people who are, for the most part, trying really hard and doing the best they can.
It's the same as the "amalgam dental fillings cause xxxxxxxx...." stories. Never mind that after those patients have their fillings taken out at huge expense and recover (placebo effect) and go on 60 minutes and look great, they then relapse and are way worse off a few months later. You'll almost never see a retraction of the original story.
Those zombie archers were tough. But if you blocked at the right time and wall jumped right, you could make it, take out each one in turn while not getting knocked off, and get up. It only took me about 10 tries. One of the big problems I had was that the saves were too far apart for a game that hard. I'm at the point in chapter 15 where you have to fight 3 mini-bosses + minions in a row, then take on the level boss creature (not the emperor). It takes like 15 or 20 minutes to beat them all, and then I die on the boss b/c i didn't save enough health bottles during the rest of the game. I've done that like 20 times. Really. There were some bosses I died somewhere north of 30 times fighting. And it's not like I'm terrible at the game. I just wouldn't have much health left by the time I got to them. I've died literally hundreds of times playing that game, which is the only one I can say that about.
"Dust" might be a good tag for this, given all the Golden Compass hullabaloo.