{"id":38491,"date":"2020-01-27T10:07:57","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T09:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.alagna.it\/?p=38491"},"modified":"2025-04-07T21:04:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T19:04:53","slug":"acclimatamento-take-it-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alagna.it\/en\/blog\/acclimatamento-take-it-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"acclimatization.. Take it easy!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Great things are done when men and mountains meet<\/span><\/span>\" - W. Blake<\/strong><\/p>\n

Are you preparing for a high altitude hike and are you already celebrationg your success? The sense of freedom you feel when looking at the world from above it's not easy a sensation to compare.<\/p>\n

Naturally, training is extremely important in these cases, and since you are going to subject your body to such considerable effort, there is a further and not secondary factor that you will have to consider: acclimatization<\/strong>. With regards to timing, this transition begins about a day after your ascent to high altitude and will be completed under a month from the same.<\/p>\n

The good news is that our body is super efficient, and was designed specifically to adapt to variable conditions with the least possible waste of energy.
\nAnd this is what acclimatization means: the higher you go, the more weary you feel<\/strong>, this happens because there is a significant and proportional decrease in oxygen pressure, which leads to the well-known \"altitude sickness<\/a>\"<\/strong>, (malaise, headache, loss of appetite, nausea, lightheadedness, exhaustion.) The way our body deals with this deficiency<\/strong> is trough a process in our blood that involves a series of spontaneous reflexes: breathing becomes deeper and more frequent, more oxygen is introduced in less time and this leads to an increase in our heart rate. Consider that, for an expert athlete it means perceiving a decrease<\/strong> in his own performance of over 25% around 3000 meters above sea level. For the less trained climber, there is a 30% decrease.<\/p>\n

How can you acclimatize optimally during an excursion?<\/strong><\/p>\n