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Jude C

Brighton, England

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Altitude sickness in High Atlas

Feb 25, 2011, 7:59 AM

Does anyone have any experience of this? I'm happy for people to tell me it doesn't happen but if it does, what do people do about it?

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TimCullis

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1. Re: Altitude sickness in High Atlas

Feb 25, 2011, 8:47 AM

The first sign is normally a headache. Descent is the only viable cure.

Many people climb Jebel Toubkal on a two day ascent from Marrakech--first day Marrakech to Imlil, then start climbing and overnight at the refuge at 3000m, do the final 1200m the next morning, then decend and back to Marrakech.

Personally I feel this is too quick and would put another acclimatisation night in at Imlil (1700m), but having said that, I've not heard of anyone having problems.

General info: http://www.imlil.org

If you are just doing the normal main roads, none of these are more than about 2400m.

Edited: 8:49 am, February 25, 2011

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katethepict

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2. Re: Altitude sickness in High Atlas

Jan 15, 2012, 4:34 PM

We had headaches about 100m above Imlil - locals called it altitude sickness and their remedy was plenty of Mint Tea! We are not used to mountaqins, living a sea level, and are not particularly fit, but the headaches went away after a couple of days. It is very dry, however, and dehydration would also be a factor in mountain wellbeing!

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