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1773 points kaonwarb | 2 comments | 20 Oct 25 04:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.495s | source

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hermitcrab ◴[20 Oct 25 14:52 UTC] No.45644604[source]▶

>Above this altitude is known as the "death zone", because there isn't enough oxygen for human life.

Being pedantic, this should be "there isn't enough oxygen for sustained human life". An acclimatised climber can survive tens of hours.

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I was wondering about this, because the link shows a bunch of birds in the "death zone".

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2. hermitcrab ◴[20 Oct 25 21:46 UTC] No.45649829[source]▶

Different species will have different 'death zones'. I'm not sure any bird would stay at that height for 10s of hours though.

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