04/12/2018
⚠ Why is it advisable to hire a mule service to take the personal equipment to the base camp?
Because when the trek to the approachal and base camps, is made with all the personal equipment on the back, the weight of the backpack doesn´t allow a good expansion of the rib cage, therefore there is no good breathing.
As height is gained, the air we breathe has lower partial pressure of oxygen and if breathing is not good, difficulty is added to the adaptation of the organism to this height hypoxia.
The consequence of the lack of adaptation to hypoxia, can trigger mountain sickness. That is why it is advisable to make the approaches, with the least possible weight in the backpack.
