Altitude sickness on Kailash Mansarovar Yatra: How to cope

Kailash Mansarovar Yatra is, perhaps, the most successful pilgrimage in the world with people searching for divine faith pouring from all over the world. Located in the inaccessible part of Tibet and with a height of more than 15,000 feet, Mount Kailash and Lake Mansarovar are not only sacred to Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, and Believers in Bon but amazingly beautiful as well. The journey, though, is as much a physical test as it is a spiritual one. The most common problem that pilgrims will encounter is altitude sickness—a potentially fatal disorder that occurs when the body gets too little oxygen at high altitudes. In this blog, we will discuss all you want to know about altitude sickness on the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra: what it is, why and whom it affects, symptoms to look out for, and most importantly, how to get rid of and avoid it