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In reply to the discussion: Is there a "curse" on Colorado? [View all]

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6. The natives of Tibet....
Wed Aug 15, 2012, 11:33 AM
Aug 2012

...have lived there for thousands of years and have physiologically adapted to the high terrain. Us, big, broad chested Americans have only recently settled in high country for a couple of hundred years and are probably more susceptible to the effects of altitude than others who've lived in that rarified air.

The same can be said for the residents of La Paz.

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