Just using a LOT of water is a bad idea (unless you eat a good amount, with salt and other nutrients around that time). Because as we all know, this can lead to hyponatremia (at the risk of stating the obvious: you sweat out a lot of salt with the water you lose. Only replacing the water dilutes your blood (serum).
As altitude  increases, the air becomes less dense because of the smaller amount  of air above that altitude. There is a corresponding decrease in  pressure with an increase in altitude. Eventually you reach a point  without air, and the pressure decreases to zero. That is space. + 91 others found this useful.
Air gets 'thinner' with increasing altitude. That's why mountain climbers sometimes need bottled oxygen to breathe, and why it is so easy to get 'winded' while hiking in high mountains or even visiting someplace at elevation. Atmospheric pressure is around 1,014 millibars (14.7 pounds/inch 2) at sea level. At an elevation of 10 km (6 miles or about 30,000 feet), roughly the height of Mt. Everest, pressure drops to 265 millibars. That's less than 30% of the pressure at sea level! Both atmospheric pressure and the density of air decrease with altitude.