u/NoBarracuda4460

Hello, me and 5 of my friends are planning on taking the salkantay trail early December this year. We aim to spend 5 days in cusco to acclimatise and then take the 5 day trek to get to macchu picchu.

We are worried about the risk of altitude sickness while we are on the trail because if someone gets the sickness badly we would all have to abandon the trek.

How much risk is there on the trail for bad enough altitude sickness that we'd have to turn around? And how can we help prevent it while we're there.

We have no prior altitude training, we live in australia. We are all around 20yo males and plan to train our cardio and hiking abilities before the trip.

Thanks for any advice!