You do not need to be a doctor, but you need just enough physiology to understand why altitude is dangerous. Almost every physiological hazard in this subject comes back to one chain: air gets thinner with height → less oxygen reaches the blood → the brain, which is greedy for oxygen and has no store of it, starts to fail. Build that chain first and hypoxia, hyperventilation, carbon monoxide and the rest all slot into place.
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