Altitude sickness can be fatal, reads of one the tweets Bob Mabena shared few hours after Gugu Zulu’s passing.
|||Radio and television presenter Bob Mabena shared his experience on social media, just hours after the death of race driver and fellow adventurer Gugu Zulu.
The legendary Bob Mabena took to Instagram to share his experience at the French Alps about a month ago. He wrote:
“I hit altitude sickness after developing fly-like symptoms. You get to a stage where you don't have the strength to actually breathe. Waking s mere two steps feels like a steep climb. I had to be rushed all the way down for about an hour's drive. I knew something was horribly wrong when I even started to hallucinate. Each time I coughed, a bit of water sprouted out if my mouth, I thank Dr. Mhinga for brewing pedantic enough to insist on a regiment of tests to check water in the lungs etc. it can be fatal & had I spent a few more minutes in that altitude I definitely wouldn't be here posting thou message.”(sic)
Zulu died on Monday before summiting mount Kilimanjaro as part of Trek4Mandela expedition.
Mabena also shared on Twitter:
Altitude sickness can b fatal. Barely survived after developing flu-like symptoms & breathing difficult in the Alps pic.twitter.com/RdSvHDxxRy
— TheJammer (@bob959) July 18, 2016
I am having some serious flashbacks about being sick from altitude. I know I came pretty close to death😢😩 https://t.co/Fsl0MFtYqi
— TheJammer (@bob959) July 18, 2016
IOL
