Mike, David and I finished the Bournemouth marathon, and we all made it before the sweeper bus.
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Two days to go until Mike Grocott, David Howard and I line up to run the Bournemouth marathon.
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Mike has thrown down the gauntlet.
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Weaning from a ventilator
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Work is still going on behind the scenes in Nepal as all of the equipment now has to find its way back to the UK.
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The Everest base camp investigator team has arrived back in Kathmandu and are currently in the Kathmandu laboratory.
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Thursday was a momentous day for the Xtreme Everest 2 Everest base camp team. The 1st of May 2013 signified the last day of trekker testing at 5300m.
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Raising money for our Sherpas
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The Base Camp team and trekkers are still working hard to collect copious amounts of data at 5300m.
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As our testing at Everest base camp draws to a close, the investigator team is beginning to get itchy feet.
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Cabin fever has well and truly set in at Everest Base Camp. The team have turned to desperate measures to find entertainment. Our latest fad, ridiculous facial hair!
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Living at 5300m for over 2 months, many of the base camp team were unsure what to expect from the food we would be eating.
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It may be hard to imagine what it is like to spend over 2 months living at 5300m. Therefore, we thought it might be interesting to explain a bit about how we live on a testing day at Everest Base Camp...
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When we breathe in air, the oxygen within it begins a journey. It travels down our trachea and into the lungs, where it passes into the bloodstream.
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Trek I have arrived in Namche at a very opportune time. It has allowed us to photograph our oldest and our youngest trekker together.
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The Namche Investigators have been putting each other on the exercise bikes recently to undertake VO2 max tests
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We have tested more than 100 subjects during the XE2 expedition now.
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I left Pheriche one Monday morning March on a medical escort to Namche, leaving group D in the care of Gabriel and Sarah.
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On 16th March 2013 Sherpa Trek C departed from Kathmandu airport to begin their journey to Base Camp.
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It is 11.30 in the morning and Jildou and I have been reviewing the state of the snack barrel at Namche.
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This week we started testing the third group of Sherpa trekkers in Namche.
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After leaving Namche Bazaar and two successful days of EBC investigator team testing, we spent the next two days trekking to Pheriche (4240m) to acclimatise.
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I am sitting in the sun on the terrace of the Sherwi Khangba with Professor David Howard.
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The morning sun creeps in through the thick frost on the inside of my window.
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The first two days that the XE2 team spent in Kathmandu (KTM) in the Summit Hotel were fast paced but lots of fun.
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Thirteen hours to go until the official start of XE2
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A trip to Lode to pick up our refurbished Corival bikes just before Sea Level Testing.
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With 100 days to go, the team take a trip to Andy Elson's hypobaric chamber.
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The XE2 team take a trip to do some Ice Climbing, but don't travel quite as far as one might expect.
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The XE2 Team take a visit to Siemens to learn about their blood gas machines.
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Brad and Jimmy are competing for the title of White Van man!
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The Xtreme Everest 2 team traveled to the English Institute of Sport at Loughborough University to learn an exciting new way to measure the level of haemoglobin in our blood.
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Dr Dan Martin, Expedition Leader for Xtreme Everest 2, shares the stage with the likes of Yuri Gagarin and Captain Scott in this BBC article:
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I leapt at the chance to study CASE's 'Space and Extreme Environment Medicine' module during my Physiology BSc at UCL.
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We have started interviewing for investigators for the XE 2 expedition next year
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Dr Ned Gilbert has been working flat out on our summer pilot studies.
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It is Friday evening at the beginning of the Jubilee weekend, and I am tying up loose ends from a very busy week.
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We are sitting in the Everest Bakery in Namche having just walked down from the Everest View Hotel.
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The Xtreme Everest team are gearing up for another summer of data collection. |
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