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TastyCartographer630 t1_j4nv0hr wrote

Reply to comment by gustav316 in TIL Porters bringing tourists up 5,895m high Mt Kilimanjaro experience health issues caused by high altitude sickness. Their wages are fixed at $10 a day (some paid $6), while carrying 20 kilograms of baggage and camping gearing on the head by Ok_Copy5217

Those sherpas are damn near super human. When it comes to high altitude mountain climbing there’s basically two sets of records, the actual records that are normally always set by sherpas (except maybe things like speed ascents) and the records for everyone else. I think the record for most Everest summits is like 14, there are sherpas who have done up to like 26 or 27

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