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Navratilova turns back at 14,800 feet (HAPE)
#9554 12/12/10 07:04 AM
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This article is about Martina Navratilova getting HAPE at 14,800 feet on Kilimanjaro....

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/12/12/world/africa/AP-AF-People-Navratilova.html?hp

Doesn't sound like her group had a pleasant climb all around.

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Akichow #9555 12/12/10 07:34 AM
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I wonder if she's climbed tall peaks before?

And, as most of us know, being in fine shape is not a predictor of HAPE/HACE.

And who knows - maybe the HAPE will be a blessing in disguise, and help her to raise even more $$ for her charity than she might have otherwise.

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KevinR #9556 12/12/10 08:43 AM
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> And who knows - maybe the HAPE will be a blessing in disguise, and help her to raise even more $$ for her charity than she might have otherwise.

So true. I'd not heard about their fund raising trip until the HAPE problem hit the news.

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Steve C #9557 12/12/10 09:32 AM
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Being famous protects no one

Even Sir Edmund got HAPE once (after Everest) - on Makalu I think. He had a rib injury, and like infection, exhaustion, dehydration, hypothermia and other insults they can increase the odds of HAPE.

The tennis star, according to the article, may have had a GI bug and/or bad weather, or.... was just there where the air is thin.

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Harvey Lankford #9558 12/12/10 10:36 AM
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This is illuminating. I've not sifted through the log carefully, but I'd think that the process of this climb is a multi day process, due to the distance involved. 28 miles up on the Marangu Route, usually 5 days to climb (6,000-19,000ft)...contrasted with 11 miles in 3 days(8,000-14,500)

They shoot for 14k on the 2nd day.

http://www.absolutekilimanjaro.co.uk/marangu_route.htm

That seems aggressive to me.

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Ken #9559 12/12/10 10:42 AM
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Ken, the big guided trips are famous for that there

I have a friend who started inexplicably wandering off the Kili trail, always ataxic to the right, as his manifestation of HACE.

After turning around and descending, he recuperated, went back 2 years later with a private guide going purposefully slower, and successfully summitted. Not bad for a 75 year old!

Harvey

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Ken #9560 12/12/10 01:34 PM
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I think it was the Rongai route, which is also on the shorter side, though they did stay at lower elevations for a few days (I am thinking of doing the longer Lemosho route sometime in 2011).

Here is her blog of the climb (later entries filled in by others). She lists elevations, etc.

http://blog.laureus.com/category/kili-climb/

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Akichow #9564 12/13/10 02:31 AM
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She's out of hospital. CNN article has pictures, so it really happened.

Despite her recent health problems, altitude tests revealed that the 18-time grand slam singles champion had the lungs of a 25-year-old. However, the Laureus team was forced to face difficult weather of blizzards and mists during the climb.

"Doctors say the experience will have no effect to Navratilova's long-term health, and that patients get back to full fitness after recuperating.
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Verum audaces non gerunt indusia alba. - Ipsi dixit MCMLXXII
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wagga #9565 12/13/10 04:56 AM
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Originally Posted By: wagga
"Doctors say the experience will have no effect to Navratilova's long-term health, and that patients get back to full fitness after recuperating."

yep, if it does not kill you, you get over it.

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Akichow #9566 12/13/10 09:02 AM
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Another longer approach route is the western Shira Plateau which has a very high success rate. I did it in 1994. You end up camping in the inner crater, 18,800' + or - and get up at a leisurely hour for breakfast and leave around 8 am for the final easy push for the summit. You descend on one of the "normal" ascent routes and spend one last night down at a lower elevation before exiting.


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