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It's not just a waste of money. Climbing Everest, even with oxygen, produces permanent brain damage.


Interested in this, where did you read/hear this?


Evidence of brain damage after high-altitude climbing by means of magnetic resonance imaging.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/16443427/


"Into Thin Air" by Krakauer. I've seen it other places, too.




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