High altitude mountaineers from the first ever reconnaissance expedition to Everest in 1921 complained about a variety of problems affecting their nose and throat.
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My name is Isabelle. I left London on 12th May with Group M.
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The use of supplementary oxygen for climbing at high altitude has been debated for many decades.
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Oxygen delivery is a term used in medicine to describe the process of how oxygen is presented to the cells which need it for generating the energy which keeps us alive.
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Ascending to high altitude forces climbers and trekkers to deal with many physiological challenges.
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Hypoxia, or lack of oxygen, is a very common phenomenon in medicine. Sudden and severe hypoxia such as drowning is obvious and frequently fatal.
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Life at high altitude has many different effects on the body. One interesting and important effect is the pronounced weight loss observed in people.
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Hypoxia, put simply, is a lack of oxygen. Oxygen forms approximately 21% of the air we breathe and is the part of the air which is vital for human life.
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Caudwell Xtreme Everest are pleased to announce that they are halfway through their research programme in Nepal.
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"We need help urgently. We have a man in his forties who cannot move his right side"
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Camp 2 on Mount Everest (6,400m) is a breath taking place, a collection of tents surrounded by giant walls of rock and ice unrivalled anywhere on Earth.
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Mountain filmmaker and co-director Michael Brown is leading the small advance film team on the trek in.
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As part of the Neurosciences work we are carrying out the most extensive high altitude eye study.
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Fascinating facts and figures about the world's highest peak.
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We arrived here at Everest Base Camp yesterday and I am writing this in a comfortable tent with a view of the Ice Fall one way and of Pumori the other.
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The single most asked question to Caudwell Xtreme Everest is: Why are you climbing a mountain when you could just use pressure chambers instead?
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Intensive care, also known as critical care, or intensive therapy, originated approximately 50 years ago as a response to a polio epidemic in Copenhagen.
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The first Caudwell Xtreme Everest trek is set to leave London Heathrow this evening.
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A good analogy of our planet is a pot of soup that has been left on the stove at a slow boil for too long.
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It seems fitting that while we are based in Namche Bazaar, the Sherpa capital, we should reflect on the people of the Kumbu Valley who help us on our expedition.
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One in six people are admitted to an intensive care unit in the United Kingdom during their life. Of these people, 20% will die whilst on the intensive care unit.
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After successfully calibrating the exercise testing equipment at the Namche laboratory, the team left their fantastic host, Lhakpa Sonam, at the Sherwi Khangba lodge.
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Namche Bazaar is situated at 3440m, and most trekkers take two days to walk there from Lukla. The name Namche is actually a Nepali mispronunciation
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In 1982, the forward looking Dean of Charing Cross Hospital Medical School was seduced by the enthusiastic plans of one of his medical students to take a year out of his studies in order to work (and climb) in Nepal.
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Nepal has diverse cultural heritage, lying as it does in between the plains of India to the south and the mountainous Tibetan plateau to the north.
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Nepal is a land-locked country sandwiched between India and Tibet (China). It includes 8 of the 10 highest mountains on the planet, including Annapurna and Everest. |
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