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How do you mountaineers reduce the effects of changes in atmospheric pressure?

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Essentially belly breathing with forceful exhale, the pressure breath helps to improve gas exchange across the alveoli by increasing the pressure of the lungs . The pressure breaths helps to combat the effects caused by decreasing atmospheric pressure as climbers gain altitude
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