TheokinsJ
Troubadour
I've always felt there's something strangely romantic about seeing snowy mountains rising above a pine forest, of glaciers, of the rock and the stone jutting up thousands of feet high.
In my WIP my main character, and his team, are attempting to climb a mountain without supplemental oxygen. My question, in question, is regards to altitude and the effects on the human body:
What is the Maximum height that one can survive at, above sea level? Everest is somewhere in the vicinity of 8,800m, from memory, and I know people use supplemented oxygen to climb it, but it can be climbed without oxygen, although more dangerous- the mountain my Main character has to climb in my book is HUGE, I'm talking ENORMOUS, like 3000m higher than Everest... Is such a feat even possible?
He MUST climb it without supplemental oxygen, and so the question really is, what is the maximum height before the human body just shuts down and dies, how far up can he get?
In my WIP my main character, and his team, are attempting to climb a mountain without supplemental oxygen. My question, in question, is regards to altitude and the effects on the human body:
What is the Maximum height that one can survive at, above sea level? Everest is somewhere in the vicinity of 8,800m, from memory, and I know people use supplemented oxygen to climb it, but it can be climbed without oxygen, although more dangerous- the mountain my Main character has to climb in my book is HUGE, I'm talking ENORMOUS, like 3000m higher than Everest... Is such a feat even possible?
He MUST climb it without supplemental oxygen, and so the question really is, what is the maximum height before the human body just shuts down and dies, how far up can he get?