Victor Vescovo
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Plus or minus.
Yeah, it's really high.
Above 8,000 meters, you are slowly dying.
Like if you're on summit day and you get above 8,000 meters just outside of camp four, if you stop to rest, you're only dying more slowly.
You have to get back down.
And that's why if you run out of oxygen,
and you've been on oxygen, you're done, because your body starts getting used to it.
And people have a misconception that if you're on oxygen, oh, it's like normal, like you're at sea level.
Not at all.
It just takes the edge off of it.
It lowers the feeling of altitude by three or 4,000 feet.
It gives you enough oxygen to keep yourself warm.
It's not like Popeye opening a can of spinach and making you strong.
It keeps you alive.
And yes, people have summited Everest for that oxygen, but it's very rare and very dangerous.
So it's a serious place.
And people, I think, sometimes give it too much.
Oh, it's a walk-up.
Look at the lines.
You just have to pay a lot of money and go up.