“I have never been up to that altitude before and it really had an effect on my body – the higher I climbed, the slower I became and it completely ruined my appetite.”

Altitude sickness, also known as acute mountain sickness (AMS) is cause by acute exposure to low amounts of oxygen, causing headaches, nausea and vomiting and shortness of breath.

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