Comments on: Lagginhorn WSW Ridge http://www.imamountaineer.co.uk/2009/08/lagginhorn-wsw-ridge/ The preparation and the suffering, for those moments of elation high up in the clouds. Mon, 16 Aug 2010 01:14:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Nigel http://www.imamountaineer.co.uk/2009/08/lagginhorn-wsw-ridge/comment-page-1/#comment-90 Nigel Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:32:39 +0000 http://www.imamountaineer.co.uk/?p=510#comment-90 Hi Ian, a good, honest write-up!! How'd you manage to remember the level of detail?? I remember the effects of altitude when I went up Kilimanjaro some years back - it kind slowly caught up with you. I too felt a light-headed and a bit unbalanced. I had a bizarre feeling that I wasn't really there - I could have quite easily have just laid down and gone to sleep. I was never quite sure whether the guide egging me on was doing it because he thought healthwise I was ok to continue, or whether he felt obliged to get me to the summit. A sobering sight was seeing a body-bag being ferried down on a stretcher just as we neared the summit - someone had died of AMS that night! ....enjoying the posts...but patiently waiting for MB!!! Hi Ian, a good, honest write-up!! How’d you manage to remember the level of detail??

I remember the effects of altitude when I went up Kilimanjaro some years back – it kind slowly caught up with you. I too felt a light-headed and a bit unbalanced. I had a bizarre feeling that I wasn’t really there – I could have quite easily have just laid down and gone to sleep. I was never quite sure whether the guide egging me on was doing it because he thought healthwise I was ok to continue, or whether he felt obliged to get me to the summit. A sobering sight was seeing a body-bag being ferried down on a stretcher just as we neared the summit – someone had died of AMS that night!

….enjoying the posts…but patiently waiting for MB!!!

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