Imagine being the original folk building all that shit to a sufficient safety standard... phew.
This does give me a drive to get back to the mountains, I can almost see the air and its freshness.
Highest I got was a little more than that, about 5,500 in Nepal, spent a month trekking the Annapurna mountains and I think about it pretty much every day since (2012). Less crowds!
Yeah it's pretty incredible what they can build in such remote places. I'm not sure how they do it. 5500m is impressively high. There is a big difference with each 1000m of elevation (or so I've read), so that is pretty significant. That sounds like an incredible trip.
Yeah we had to stay for a day in this amazing oasis of a village deep in a valley so we could adjust to the oxygen reduction. Was pretty amazing. I'd recommend it to anyone.
But at the same time, seeing France and Italy from that view is also pretty damn stunning