Effects of altitude

Plukky

ChrisRG said:

@Plukky, The people that live in the high altitude areas are amazingly well adapted (and ridiculously fit and tough).  On one trek, we tried to play the monks at football at the Tengboche monastery which is at about 3800m.  I think we were swapping players every 30 secs and still not actually running around!  They were just laughing at us.

We also could hardly lift the porters loads let alone trek up hill at altitude.  Amazing people.

Absolutely, the Quechua porters probably do the Trail one a week - fit as f**k.