soroche

alternative sorochi · alternative sorocho

1. obsoleteuncountablealtitude sickness, mountain sickness

   The soroche attacks different persons in different ways.

   1913, Frank O. Carpenter, “Americans of the high Andes”, in Moderator-topics, volume 34, page 693

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   Men, horses, and mules occasionally perish under soroche while on the Andes; and yet some persons who never were 3,000 feet above the level of the ocean, or if so, have only been sitting in a balloon in a state of muscular quiescence, have ridiculed statements of facts such as those here noted.

   1860, Proceedings of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, volume 4

   I should treat soroche on the plainest principles of hydraulics.

   1876, H. C. Cochrane, “The Misti, and travels in Peru and Chili”, in Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York, volume 6, page 219