SKIERS BEWARE: ALTITUDE SICKNESS IS WIDESPREAD

From: The Columbian | Date: November 28, 1997| Author: MARY BOYLE | Copyright information


The Columbian

11-28-1997

DENVER — The morning after arriving at a Colorado mountain lodge, Mike Riley developed a piercing headache. He felt nauseous, utterly exhausted, and he hadn’t even strapped on his ski boots yet.
The 36-year-old New York sales executive chalked it up to the prior night’s celebration kicking off a week in Aspen. But the sickness lingered for two days.
“By then I knew it wasn’t a hangover,” Riley ...

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