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Cho Oyu mini-series, brought to you by @KEEN @clifbar and @hypoxico: ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Six weeks before leaving for Tibet, we started pre-acclimatizing at home in our @hypoxico tent. This pre-acclimatization period allowed us to do what @alpenglowexpeditions calls a “rapid ascent” of the mountain. 8000m peak expeditions can take anywhere from 4-8 weeks. Sleeping in the tent allowed us to do the trip in under a month. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀At first, we loved the novelty of sleeping in the tent! But as we got higher, it got harder and harder. One crux was when we started sleeping at 14,000’/4,267m and another harder crux came for us at 17,000’/5,181m. 17k felt like a ceiling for me, and hitting the plateau with that altitude foreshadowed what was in store for me on the mountain. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Photos: @rob.lea ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀puppy in second photo: @bella.versus.world #KEENambassador #FeedYourAdventure #sponsored