After several days acclimatising in Leh it was finally time to set off. I still wasn’t sleeping properly at altitude, but each night was getting a little better than the last. My excitement was tempered by a touch of apprehension — eight days without a shower or flushing toilets, and a new group of strangers […]| Randomwire
At the end of my HexaTrek thru-hike in July, I hinted at further adventures to come, though at the time I didn’t have any concrete plans.| Randomwire
For most people, sitting on an airplane is just like sitting on a bus or a train. The view from the window might be different, but the air you breathe is the same. Except it isn’t. Cabin air at altitude contains 25% less oxygen than it does at ground level. That’s a sizeable reduction that […]| carnotcycle
For most people, sitting on an airplane is just like sitting on a bus or a train. The view from the window might be different, but the air you breathe is the same. Except it isn’t. Cabin air …| carnotcycle
This topic of population by latitude has always interested me, and it's something I've written about here before. But I'm also very interested in population by altitude, so that's what this short post is about - population by altitude across Great Britain. This is one of a few pieces I've had sitting on my computer, unfinished, for a while so I'm posting what I have now because I think people might find it interesting.| Stats, Maps n Pix
Elevation, Oxygen, and Cancer of the Lung| blog.dhimmel.com