Mountains and Oxygen?

Andy From Sligo

might sound silly question but are there any mountains in Ireland where you need Oxygen at the top or are none of the mountains high enough?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Not even close. You'd need to be above 2500m to even experience thinning air
and our highest is 1038m.


No sillier than any of your other questions.

None.

Victor

Mountaineers wouldn't need oxygen, but people not used to the exertion might.

Rumpy Pumpy

Just in the death zone near the top of Uisneach.

r93kaey5p2izun

People climb Everest without Oxygen so I wouldn't say so.

silverharp

Ive been on Teide in the canaries, its 3,700mtrs an you could feel the air was thin, Lugnaquilla is only 900 mtrs for contrast

GritBiscuit

The highest peak in Ireland is Carrauntoohil at just over 1000m.

Altitude starts to affect air density at around 1500m but even at 3000m the blood of an average adult human would be saturated to 89% or so with oxygen. The summit of Everest is 8850m and the air density is only a third of what is found at sea-level.

Maybe it's a trick question and the answer is that everyone needs oxygen, on mountains, even when asleep in their beds at night...

Barry Badrinath

The Sugar Loaf is grand.

Well, its a load of bollox actually. Got to the top...no sugar.

Load.of.bollox.

SEPT 23 1989

It depends how healthy you are

Andy From Sligo

wife was climbing big ben in Sligo the other day, started to go light headed half way up. But she reckon it because she were either unfit or just out of breath

Barry Badrinath

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

wife was climbing big ben in Sligo the other day

I think I know him.

Duuurty

Jawgap

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

might sound silly question but are there any mountains in Ireland where you need Oxygen at the top or are none of the mountains high enough?

You need oxygen at the top of all mountains

corner of hells

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

wife was climbing big ben in Sligo the other day, started to go light headed half way up. But she reckon it because she were either unfit or just out of breath

Get her a tank of oxygen and send her back up tonight .See how she gets on and report back.

It depends on the person but generally, you won't feel it going up a mountain in Ireland. You could stack seven Carrauntoohils on top of each other and most people would be grand on the top, but they'd be very uncomfortable.

Andy From Sligo

Jawgap wrote: »

You need oxygen at the top of all mountains

interesting that

o1s1n

I travel to Pretoria in South Africa quite a bit to visit my wife's family and the ground level there is 1400m about sea level.

So you're constantly 40% higher than Carrauntoohil just going about your day to day business.

Always thought that was a bit mad.