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The higher you go in altitude the less oxygen O2 there is in the air. As such it becomes harder to breath without "acclimating" to that elevation. Above 8,000 meters the human body begins to die without assisted breathing apparatuses. Even those only delay the process of decay.
Extreme increases in elevation over a short period of time can also cause numerous bad medical effects. Including pulmonary edema and cerebral edema both of which can be fatal.
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JudyAltitude affects breathing by decreasing the amount of oxygen available in the air, leading to reduced oxygen intake. At higher altitudes, the air pressure decreases, making it harder for the body to take in oxygen and causing symptoms like shortness of breath, dizziness, and fatigue. This can trigger the body to increase breathing rate in an attempt to compensate for the lower oxygen levels.
There's less oxygen at high altitudes like on Mount Everest (still a far way from the ozone layer) and the body's physiological response is to speed up breathing. For people who have climbed Mount Everest without oxygen tanks, they describe breathing as exhausting as they have to draw breaths at incredibly high frequencies and they exhaust their diaphragms like any other muscle.
There's less oxygen at high altitudes and the body's physiological response is to speed up breathing. People who have climbed high altitudes without oxygen tanks tend to find breathing to be exhausting as they have to draw breaths at incredibly high frequencies and they exhaust their diaphragms like any other muscle.
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