 Poster: A snowHead
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The world’s highest gondola, which reaches 4,843m above sea level, has just opened to the public in Sichuan province, China. Accessing the Aba Great Glacier, the gondola can carry 800 passengers an hour and takes 9.4 minutes to ascend 1,226m. The lift has been built by Doppelmayr, who began work back in October 2006. The top station is 327m higher than the previous record holder -at Jade Dragon Snow Mountain in Yunnan province. ...Source: http://www.hkssa.net/showthread.php?p=4586
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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That's seriously high. Carrying skis or a snowboard would be quite an effort at that alttitude.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Darn nearly 16,000 ft.  I'd want oxygen.
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
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Wow! Thats high, I have been over 4,000 metre once and you can't walk ten steps without gasping. Anyone know if gondola is servcing a ski run?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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killian, as far as I know, this glacier is not a ski resort. The lift is planned to operate 300 days a year taking up visitors to a lake.
Because it is quite high, all the cabins are equipped with oxygene masks.
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You'll need to Register first of course.
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The world’s highest gondola |
I think that gondola in Bolivia is higher. Chacaltaya, Bolivia 5.421 m
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Ski-Mag.com, Welcome to Snowheads!
No, it is not. The one in Bolivia is a draglift, not a gondola.
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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kerekip, a Draglift at 5.421mtrs must be hard work just to hold on.
Ski-Mag.com, welcome.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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dizzy thought of it - maybe just me. feel dizzy at high altitude.
like saas fee and mont blanc - is it just me getting wobbly knees
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You know it makes sense.
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Can we have rolexwatch, blocked please 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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rolexwatch, explains what shops will be available at the top of the gondola
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Poster: A snowHead
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Regarding the altitude factor, I think this says a lot about the general cardiovascular fitness of the locals and the target market. Unless suffereing from HACE/HAPE, a person's VO2max (roughly equating to Oxygen processing ability to body weight ratio) will dictate their response or capability for exercise at altitude. The Chinese may be chain-smokers but they're leaner and more active on the whole than North Westerners so will likely be better able to cope.
If you want to get ready for exercise at altitude, absolute VO2 max usually responds quite rapidly to training because the insides of our body (e.g. heart size, arterial and capillary extent, haemoglobin concentration and blood volume) will all grow. Non exercisers will always be at their own base level of these factors influencing their oxygen processing capability but that can usually be increased over 12 weeks or so by anything up to 40% just by doing 3 or 4 weekly sessions of constant moderate to intense large muscle group exercise of 40 minutes or so. Losing 5% or so of excess body fat will likely occur simultaneously and contributes towards that aforementioned ratio.
Of course, if you happen to be prone to HACE/HAPE, you could have the deep plumbing and biomechanics of Lance Armstrong and still need emergency evacuation off the mountain to a low altitude hospital. 
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