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Even in the clearest, most perfect weather, hikers can get in trouble due to the elevation and lessened oxygen levels. This is especially true for those with a compromised respiratory system, but can easily affect residents used to living at low...
That is a very good point regarding a pilgrim's understanding. I wonder if the volunteers in the Pilgrim Office discuss how dangerous walking can be and if they have the experience and the proper clothes to protect themselves.
Even if they did, so many have no real understanding of how these conditions will affect them. They simply don’t have the experience to make an informed decision.
Exactly.
Or, as @Antnix1 says, “they bring unsuitable equipment/clothes/footwear.”
Remember
“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.”
– Henry David Thoreau,
Walden, 1854
and/et
" Jamais je n’ai tant pensé, tant existé, tant vécu, tant été moi-même, si j’ose...
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