My experience with my altitude tent and broken promises

Bummer. Bet it didn't do much for your love life either.

Altitude tents don't work. If you want the benefits of high altitude you need to live 24/7 at altitude for a number of months. Just sleeping in one won't do it.

Looks like the lower oxygen pressure caused you to lose a few cells in the portion of the brain that controls grammar and punctuation. Crank it up to 7000' and you may become a talking monkey.

Sherpa! wrote:

Altitude tents don't work. If you want the benefits of high altitude you need to live 24/7 at altitude for a number of months. Just sleeping in one won't do it.

Not true, AFAIK. There are several papers on Researchgate comparing Sleep High, Train Low with Sleep High, Train High. They both work.

Many top mountaineers use them so that they arrive at high altitudes already acclimatized. Gone are those long walk-ins from the 50s and 60s.

Alan55 wrote:

Sherpa! wrote:Altitude tents don't work. If you want the benefits of high altitude you need to live 24/7 at altitude for a number of months. Just sleeping in one won't do it.

Not true, AFAIK. There are several papers on Researchgate comparing Sleep High, Train Low with Sleep High, Train High. They both work.

Many top mountaineers use them so that they arrive at high altitudes already acclimatized. Gone are those long walk-ins from the 50s and 60s.

As for those long walk ins of the 50's and 60, very true! However, not for the reasons that you suggest.

First off, you need to live all the time at altitude to get the affect and benefits. The research on this is extensive. Google is your friend go educate yourself.

As to mountaineers using these altitude tents they were one of the first to try these. This is why the tents were first invented. Sadly, they found that they didn't work as advertised.

You are right in that the long walk ins of the 50's and 60's are no longer needed. As for Nepal and climbing Everest, in 1953 they started walking from Bhaktapur because that was where the road ended. When the Americans climbed Everest in 1963 they started in Jiri. Why? Because that's where the road ended. In each of these cases it had nothing to do with acclimatization due to altitude. Later they began flying in to Lukla and skipping the extra week that walking from Jiri required. If altitude tents were to work so well why wouldn't they just have everyone on the expedition sleep in them at home and then arrive in Kathmandu and helicopter up to Everest Base Camp? In addition, they could keep raising the simulated altitude to as much as 8000m and thus skip all of the acclimatization climbs through the icefall. It would definitely make climbing from the Nepal side of the mountain much safer and a lot shorter duration of the expedition if you didn't have to climb through the very dangerous icefall so many times.

Wow, your writing is truly horrible. Your tent time would have been better spent simply reading a book.

Here's Killian Jornet's schedule for using an altitude tent to train for Cho Oyu. Includes minimizing travel time to the base of the mountain, to prevent loss of pre-acclimatization.

https://www.uphillathlete.com/kilian-jornet-everest/

Altitude Tents are expensive, and not terribly practical, but they work.

Armstrong had one - that should be all the proof you need.

While legal, some consider their use unethical. I knew a few national-class runners who swore by them, but it was a "dirty secret" and kept on the DL.

Alan55 wrote:

Here's Killian Jornet's schedule for using an altitude tent to train for Cho Oyu. Includes minimizing travel time to the base of the mountain, to prevent loss of pre-acclimatization.

https://www.uphillathlete.com/kilian-jornet-everest/

Hardly an esteemed mountaineer. That's like saying Jamin is a threat to make the US Olympic team let alone set a world record at any distance event

Ernest wrote:

Altitude Tents are expensive, and not terribly practical, but they work.

Armstrong had one - that should be all the proof you need.

While legal, some consider their use unethical. I knew a few national-class runners who swore by them, but it was a "dirty secret" and kept on the DL.

As we found out later, it really wasn't "all about the bike". It was all about the drugs!

high altitude tents wrote:

My experience with my altitude tent and broken promises

As for the broken promises part: did you catch her in another guy's altitude tent? Now that's cold!

Ernest wrote:

Altitude Tents are expensive, and not terribly practical, but they work.

Armstrong had one - that should be all the proof you need.

While legal, some consider their use unethical. I knew a few national-class runners who swore by them, but it was a "dirty secret" and kept on the DL.

Armstrong? You mean Lance Armstrong?Armstrong also had EPO, Cortizone, GH, Testo Pills and a lot of money to buy the silence of a lot of people.

Which rock you've been living under?