sjarelkwint wrote:Moni wrote:Proterra wrote:
When Climbing Mont Blanc, you probably woke up at less than 1000 metres and went to sleep at 3800 that night...
Got that right! We went from Uelzen (30 M) to Zürich (I think 600M) to Chamonix to the Gouter hut. (wheeze, wheeze, especially after sprinting across the Grand coulior).
My point is, that you might not get altitude sick but surely you'll feel it, especially since gondolas and the like will get you high up quickly.
It's like me to forget how really little all this part of Europe is - that Düssledorf would be closer and better than Amsterdam to catch a cheap flight.
You can also fly with ryanair from eindhoven or with corendon ... Just check those websites out!
I've been in Califoria for some hiking and there's a big difference in the altitude between europe and california ... In california i didn't feel a thing at 3000m in europe i've had troubles at 2000m . Not troubles, just felt the altitude actually ...
Aye. From Eindhoven one can fly to Bergamo (near Milan, for the Alps), Girona (Pyrenees) and Madrid. Corendon isn't worth it, they only fly to Istanbul, as far as I know, although you could check Wizzair out, they fly from Eindhoven to Katowice, which is quite close to the Tatra Mountains.
Sjarel; about the mountains; you could actually be right about that because California is much further south than most places in Europe. The further one gets from the equator to the poles, the steeper the pressure gradient in the atmosphere becomes, due to the rotation of the Earth the atmosphere "bulges" at the equator.