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Last weekend, I strapped 30 to 40 pounds of camping gear to my back and hiked through Colorado’s wild-flowered Rocky Mountain National Park. I figured the pack would feel heavy, but I didn’t read How Altitude Sickness Works. So I was surprised at 11,000 feet when this happened: rapid heartbeat, shortness of breath, malaise, the chills, headache, loss of appetite, slight nausea, not being able to add and subtract quickly in my head, mean thoughts …
What you see to your right is Kjeragbolten, a boulder wedged between two rock faces that tower about 6.5 feet (2 meters) apart, 1,000 meters above the Norwegian fjords. Word on the street is that the rock got stuck there sometime during the last ice age. Today, believe it or not, it’s a popular place [...]
This may or may not be a good place to confess that a fear of heights has kept me from appreciating some amazing views. As I learned last year, though, sometimes all you need to overcome your fear is this: a bigger fear. In my case, that über-scary thing was an adorable, too-expensive handbag, and it sent me straight into Colorado’s Loveland Pass.
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