Altitude sickness death

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Re: Altitude sickness death

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I wrote this TWICE and then couldn't find either. I hope I'm not getting Alzheimers - haha.
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Here is a scoring system to gauge the severity of someone's acute mountain sickness:

http://www.thepeakinc.com/assets/PDFs/ ... _001-1.pdf
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