How does your body react to altitudes that are thirty to forty times a Bukit Timah Hill’s? It screams at you with the worst headaches you will ever experience. Some nights, they get so bad that not even popping four Panadol (and ActiFast at that) can lighten the throb in your head. So you learn. You learn that prevention is better than cure. You learn from your peers to pop one tablet every four hours and wonder how many years of medical detoxification you will need before the tablets make their way out of your body. First-aid talks aside, you also come to reliaze that, while your body reacts to the harsh Himalayan environment as quickly as its winds blow, you can cheat it into believing that are you taking a descent, when the opposite is the truth. Acclimatization days are the BEST because apparently, if you put your body at an elevation level just a few hundred metres higher in the day, make a descent and then go to bed at lower altitudes, the headaches, unfortunately, don’t...
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