There’s 8 of us doing it and we’re all dotted all over the world so should be enjoyable enough experience.
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Do a multi-day trek if you can in advance to get used to the concept - even when the hiking is easy it’s a different animal to tipping away up and down Galtymore in a few hours.
The altitude sickness is pure luck of the draw, the more time you can spend acclimatising to the height the better.
Coca leaves are good for altitude sickness. So I’d imagine a giant bag of cocaine would work wonders
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It’s a different sort of high I’m trying to get here.
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Spend a few night camping at the top of Galtymore to get acclimatized
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Up and down Galtymore with a plastic bag with a few small holes over the head
Where’s the International COTY thread?
That’s the way of the mountains I’m afraid.
As someone who has summited GalteeMor twice, I can say with authority that if I fell on the mountain, i wouldn’t expect my expedition team to do anything that would potentially lead to one of them dying too.
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There’s no sympathy in this game for anybody.
Bit of a slow burner.
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Ah, I was only trying to rise somebody. I’d have to agree with @TreatyStones that it’s too unforgiving up there to help people who are already part of a team.
At first it was reported that he was part of her team, but I don’t think he was. People commenting on social media don’t understand the life and death decisions made up mountains.
I know a young fit doctor who wanted to volunteer in base camp on Everest for a summer. She physically wasn’t able to make it there despite having experience.
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I was at 12,000 feet a few weeks ago, I’d advise not to drink pints at altitude till you get used to it, a right bastard of a hangover
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Where were you that high?
Did 11000 before in Utah. All I found was I got a dry mouth
Was in Colorado, Rocky Mountains National Park
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12000 feet was surely a peak in the Rockies?
Doing those 14 peaks in three months is some going.
The film about the previous record holder is incredible, think it’s still on Netflix. He went up one of those 8,000ers as a kind of an afterthought one afternoon.
What is the point of it in fairness?
Damien Browne is running out of things to do so he’s going up and down kilamanjaro twice in a week.
I climbed Kilimanjaro nearly 20 years ago now. I’ve also climbed Aconcagua which is nearly 3,000 feet higher at just under 23,000 feet.
I found Aconcagua easier as it was 17 days with proper acclimatisation and maybe 3 rest days within that to acclimatise to the altitude. With Kilimanjaro, when I did it, it was 7 days, no acclimatisation, up, up, up and higher, higher, higher every day. That’s very hard on the body. I don’t know whether it’s changed since but a few extra days would make all the difference. Go slowly as well. Lot of those that I would have observed succumbing to altitude sickness were just haring it up.
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