What possibly made it worse was that we had visited Bad Water and Death Valley a couple of days previous to the hike up Whitney.
So we effectively went from the lowest point in the USA to the highest - that probably didn't help!
I did that as a lark two years ago when I did my first summit of Whitney. Fortunately, didn't keep me from successfully summitting, but it was probably a bad choice.
But I was young and foolish back then.
