" One of the more common mistakes is to say that the body reguires a certain PERCENTAGE of oxygen. The truth is, the body requires a certain PRESSURE of oxygen. Since most of the traditional information is writen by people sitting on the surface, it is common to think of FRACTION of oxygen to be the same as PRESSURE of oxygen. It is just a quirk of nature since the atmospheric pressure is 1 ata, and any number that is multiplied or divided by 1 is still that number"
I.E when you travel to the mountains the total percentage of O2 is still 21% but it's the ata pressure that changes, as the oxygen pressure changes , this can cause headache and shortness of breath. This is known as HYPOXIA , a condition brought on by to little oxygen