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"Keith F. Lynch" <k...@KeithLynch.net> writes:

> I had no problem with the altitude when I visited there once many
> years on a business trip.

Yeah, because everybody responds to high altitudes the same way.
And did you take the tramway there, or hike half a mile on broken
ground?

> The only problem I had was with the prices
> at the restaurant.

It's called 'High Finance' for a reason.  Well, two reasons.

> At least they had an excuse for that:  Food is
> cooked at the bottom of the mountain, then hurriedly carried up before
> it can cool off.

Sounds like bullshit.  There's no hurrying up that mountain.

> (At that altitude the boiling point of water is too
> low for proper cooking.)

That can be compensated for.

-- 
Steve Coltrin    spcol...@omcl.org   Google Groups killfiled here 
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