any of y'all experienced mountaineers?
Mar. 14th, 2009 11:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
keryxI keep talking about climbing a mountain. Assuming we can get up to Mauna Kea early enough in the day while I'm in HI next month, I can of course walk up the summit trail. But I'm thinking more serious. Like. Kilimanjaro. It's apparently not a technically difficult climb (that is, I don't need to be a good rock climber, which I'm not) so much as a grueling ordeal of altitude. *
Plus, you know. Giraffes.
So let's say I want to do this next year. What do you do to prep for mountain trekking? I suppose I should find this out.
* Funny thing: I appear to be indifferent to altitude up to 12-13K feet. Proves the relative randomness of altitude sickness, that an asthmatic (with a history of smoking, no less) who lives close to sea level is all "whatevs" at that height. Higher apparently everyone starts feeling it.
Plus, you know. Giraffes.
So let's say I want to do this next year. What do you do to prep for mountain trekking? I suppose I should find this out.
* Funny thing: I appear to be indifferent to altitude up to 12-13K feet. Proves the relative randomness of altitude sickness, that an asthmatic (with a history of smoking, no less) who lives close to sea level is all "whatevs" at that height. Higher apparently everyone starts feeling it.