Have you ever wondered whether you’re “too old” to try your first high altitude trip?

Or whether you’ll be able to keep doing high altitude trips as you get older?

*Or “**How old is too old to climb Mt Everest?”*

In this blog post Jeremy Windsor, Anaesthetist and curator of a popular Mountain Medicine blog, looks at the evidence from Mt Everest on summit success rates and risk of death and how they change with age. The good news? Over the 20+ years of the study, the risk of death has gone down and summit success rates have increased across all ages.

You can read the whole article here.