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INTO THIN AIR

Did you know that the oxygen concentration of air doesn’t change at altitude? It’s always 20.9 per cent on Earth, but as air becomes less dense, there are less oxygen molecules to breathe. Climbing Ben Nevis to 1,344m above sea level (as our writer Matt Ray

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