Went on vacation to Japan,"climb Mt. Fuji" all my friends back home told me. So I did. Hundreds of thousands do it every year, right?
Well, I've lived at sea level my entire life. I'm in good shape but my body was not prepped for 0 to 12,388 feet in six hours. Suffered incapacitating headaches and a burst blood vessel in my eye. Made it to the top, but immediately started climbing back down to the nearest Station a few hundred feet below. The nice man running it took one look at me and immediately called for a tracked vehicle to take me back down to the bottom.
Mountains, even touristy ones, are no joke if your body has only ever known that wonderful, rich concentration of O2 by the beach.
branden_lucero on November 11st, 2021 at 11:02 UTC »
yes yes r_r
bagsofcandy on November 11st, 2021 at 11:27 UTC »
Love how it's referred to in Japanese. Also, you got lucky to have a day without clouds around it!
starstarstar42 on November 11st, 2021 at 11:27 UTC »
Went on vacation to Japan,"climb Mt. Fuji" all my friends back home told me. So I did. Hundreds of thousands do it every year, right?
Well, I've lived at sea level my entire life. I'm in good shape but my body was not prepped for 0 to 12,388 feet in six hours. Suffered incapacitating headaches and a burst blood vessel in my eye. Made it to the top, but immediately started climbing back down to the nearest Station a few hundred feet below. The nice man running it took one look at me and immediately called for a tracked vehicle to take me back down to the bottom.
Mountains, even touristy ones, are no joke if your body has only ever known that wonderful, rich concentration of O2 by the beach.