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Old 29-11-2014, 06:43 PM
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Originally Posted by gregbradley View Post
Beautiful photo and an interesting tale. I found shortness of breath for a while in Switzerland Jungfraujoch mountain which was about 3,500 metres so 5000 seems extremely high. I thought the "kill zone" for parachutists and planes was around 5000 metres.

Greg.
John (John K) walked right to the top of it and wrote a pretty cool book about it.
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