I 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 on a stretcher 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 »
I 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 on a stretcher 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.