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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SW-User

High in the Himalaya's during my ill-spent youth, on the Hippy Trail.

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@SW-User Does not seem like a mis-spent youth to me!

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@SW-User No, not really. Just my sometimes whimsical sense of humour.

PatKirby · M

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Sounds exciting, just you and the mountain! About how far away was that?

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@PatKirby In years do you mean? About 50!

PatKirby · M

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Miles? And would you do that again?

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@PatKirby I think that's Annapurna in the background, how far away I'm not sure. We trekked about 180 miles from Pokhara to Jomsom and then back to Kathmandu. No heavy pack on my back in that picture. I'd love to do it again, but I'm 73 now.