Mountain Climbing and brain damage?

[Cruelbreed]

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/20/mountain-climbing-bad-for-the-brain/

Well hot damn. I've been thinking about taking on some extreme sports lately. Including learning to mountain climb and scuba dive and now you have these kind of reports? Granted they most likely will not affect me as I'll probably never reach such extreme heights, but considering the lack of oxygen I guess it all really does make sense.

[Krew]

But the score kind of sounded average. IDK doesn't sound all that full proof to me. They didn't test similar non-mountain climbing people of the same age either only compared it to the 19 year olds brain so who knows maybe your brain just deteriorates with age.

[Stark]

its bollox

[bobdina]

But the score kind of sounded average. IDK doesn't sound all that full proof to me. They didn't test similar non-mountain climbing people of the same age either only compared it to the 19 year olds brain so who knows maybe your brain just deteriorates with age.

My brain deteriorates every day.

[Cruelbreed]

considering decreasing levels of oxygen as you go higher, it does seem to make sense though no?