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how fit do you have to be to climb a mountain?

  • Written by Julien Periard, Associate Professor, University of Canberra
how fit do you have to be to climb a mountain?Climbing a mountain has more to do with how your body deals with altitude, which you can't control. from www.shutterstock.com

Since the commercialisation of high altitude mountaineering in the 1990s, the number of climbers has increased significantly. Mount Kilimanjaro, perhaps the most popular mountaineering trip in the world, now attracts around 4...