What's the highest altitude you've been at?

Excluding flight. Mine is 2474m, at the Daulo Pass in PNG, delightfully chilly in the near-equatorial zone. Until I researched, I didn't realise this exceeded my previous: Australia's highest summit, Mt Kosciousko, Mexico City and Johannesburg.

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Longpatrol · 31-35, M

2300m: Arequipa, Peru

PatKirby · M

@Longpatrol

How was the experience in that town? Wouldn't mind visiting in a few years. Did you like it? Was it expensive?

Longpatrol · 31-35, M

@PatKirby It was about $100 a night. I had to take altitude pills as I'm asthmatic and I wasn't sure what the effects of high altitude would be.

I went during the off season so the town was pretty quiet, but the folk are genial enough.