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We're 10% of the way to our £10k goal!
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Dr Gilbert - Kawai speaks to Jim Milledge as part of his In Conversation... series
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Xtreme Everest will be running the Bournemouth Marathon in October
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Liesl will be showing us her muscles in September
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The Xtreme Everest team will be running in the Bournemouth Marathon again this year.
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Dr Ned Gilbert-Kawai continues his interviews with John Burnard West
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The Xtreme Everest team will be running in the Bournemouth Marathon again this year.
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Xtreme Everest's Dr Gilbert-Kawai turns interviewer for new series of papers
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We take a look at our archives, starting with Dr Jim Milledge and his medical research expedition experience
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Xtreme Everestâs Professor Mike Grocott was invited to speak to a group of former Olympians by the Dame Kelly Holmes Trust at an event held at the Institute of Sport Exercise and Health on the 10 June.
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Funds raised by Xtreme Everest from the 2014 Bournemouth Marathon have been used to support Summit Nepal Trekking staff to help rebuild their own villages and improve the lives of those affected.
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Join both Porters Progress UK and International Porter Protection Group (IPPG), in conjunction with Community Action Nepal (CAN) for their special Best of Kendal Mountain Film Festival.
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Join Professor Mark Peters on the 9 June at the Institute of Child Health in London as he talks "Fortune's Fool".
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The From Fire to Ice team, who Xtreme Everest Investigator Dr Andre Vercueil is part of, has recently released their latest expedition video.
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Namche Bazaar close to centre of latest earthquake
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The recent events in Nepal have been devastating and tragic.
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Xtreme Everestâs Dr Dan Martin and Dr Edward (Ned) Gilbert-Kawai featured on the recent BBC Four documentary âThe Wonderful World of Blood with Dr Michael Mosleyâ.
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The first Xtreme Everest school engagement day took place in February and turned out to be a huge success.
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A new systematic review paper by Xtreme Everest doctors has recently been published in Sports Meds.
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Dr Martin recently visited St Olavs Hospital in Trondheim, Norway for a series of lectures about Xtreme Everest's work.
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Xtreme Everest team offers congratulations to Professor Mythen and colleagues on 15 yearsâ worth of achievements
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Xtreme Everestâs Investigator Dr Andre Vercueil is embarking on a new journey across the South Pole to further understand how the human body reacts to extremes of stress.
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XE team members sign up to run for Sherpas
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We have just received the tragic news that a number of Sherpas were killed in an avalanche on Everest this morning.
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Study results are reported by journalists from around the globe
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Xtreme Everest are delighted to help put Educational App Store in touch with Namche Primary School
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Professor Hugh Montgomery features on Sunday
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Help improve outcomes for critically ill patients
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Xtreme Everest are delighted to announce their involvement with the Dark Ice project where four polar athletes will be making their way to the North Pole and back in the darkness of winter.
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11th December, 8.50 am to 5.30 pm
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'Great things are done when men and mountains meet/ this is not done by jostling in the street' - William Blake
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Thanks to thousands of donations, over £870,000 has been raised to fund this fieldwork. We now need a further £250,000 to ensure that the information gathered is scrutinized properly to save lives in the future.
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CXE trekker publishes novel about the Battle of Britain
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Dr Dan Martin has been invited to speak about Xtreme Everest 2 at The Royal Free Hospital.
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Xtreme Everest 2 has been enjoying media attention recently.
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Dan Martin, Mike Grocott and Andrew Murray attended the official opening of the MRC-NIHR Phenome Centre at Hammersmith Hospital
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Members of the Xtreme Everest 2 research team joined climbers, Sherpas and diplomats at a reception at the British Embassy in Kathmandu on Wednesday 29th May, 2013, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the first ascent of Everest by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa.
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Now that the very successful Xtreme-Everest 2 scientific expedition is nearing its end, many of our wonderful trekkers and investigators will have already returned home and others will be in the final stages back in Kathmandu.
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Recently, the XE2 website has been running stories about some of the institutions that have been set up in Namche.
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The breakfast room of the Khumbu lodge in Namche overlooks the town beautifully, as it is built in the centre of the âhorseshoe shapedâ excavation of the hill.
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Namche has a primary school, a ârespectableâ primary school, as that is what âShreeâ means.
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The details of our muscle biopsy research are a common source of questions and debate within the investigator group and our wonderful cohort of trekkers.
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The Namche Dental Clinic was founded in 1991 with support from the American Himalayan Foundation (USA).
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The Hypoxic Ventilatory Response (HVR) study investigates how individuals alter their breathing in response to reduced levels of oxygen (hypoxia).
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Namche Bazar is the economical capital of the khumbu valley, the home region of the Sherpa people.
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The Base Camp team are now halfway through our time at 5300m, therefore we thought we would send an update on what has been going on at Everest Base Camp.
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Introducing the Base Camp Team
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It is 2006. Mike Teanby, engineer by trade, but by then working as a manager in a big retail company, reads the Saturday newspaper.
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Last Wednesday we could welcome the first trek returning safely to our âbaseâafter completing the hike to, and all their testing at, Everest Base Camp.
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The base camp laboratory has been running for over a week now.
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The Xtreme Everest base camp has turned from a pile of boxes and barrels into the world's highest, fully functioning medical research laboratory of its kind.
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Thirteen non-Nepali trekkers arrived in Kathmandu over the weekend and were welcomed to the Summit Hotel with a Puja (blessing ceremony) on Sunday evening (17th March).
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The first sherpa trek started trekking from Lukla on Tuesday 12th March with Dr Andre Vercueil (Caudwell Xtreme Everest 2007 climbing team) leading and Ang Gyaljen Sherpa as the sirdar.
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The XE2 team wish to say a massive thank you to all our supporters who have been donating via our website
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The first two days of Sherpa testing have been completed in Kathmandu.
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Testing in the Kathmandu laboratory is continuing on schedule with the completion of testing on 30 subjects by close of play yesterday.
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The first two days of Sherpa testing have been completed in Kathmandu.
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The XE2 Logistics team have finished building the Kathmandu Laboratory
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XE2 Logistics team arrives in Nepal along with members of the Kathmandu Laboratory team
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2003 Rugby World Cup Winner and mountaineer, Josh Lewsey, joins the Xtreme Everest 2 team as an ambassador.
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In collaboration with the Duke Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Environmental Physiology, the Xtreme Everest 2 team are simulating next Spring's trek in Nepal.
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One week into Sea Level Testing and media interest is rising.
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Some 55% of people who survive intensive care treatment go on to develop psychological disorders.
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Over the last few weeks, the Xtreme Everest 2 team have been working hard in a lab in Archway in a hypoxia chamber conducting a study on Sherpas and lowlanders.
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Hugh Montgomery talks to 'The Life Scientific' about the gene for fitness and how mountaineers have influenced intensive care medicine.
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The Xtreme Everest 2 team were saddened to hear of the fatal plane crash in Nepal yesterday.
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Professor Mike Grocott and Professor Hugh Montgomery launched a new Ejournal this week
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Xtreme Everest are delighted to launch booking for our 2013 medical research treks to Everest Base Camp.
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Professor Jim Milledge speaks to CASE medicine members about the Silver Hut and AMREE expeditions
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Xtreme Everest and The Mountain Medicine Society of Nepal held a one-day conference at the Summit Hotel, Kathmandu, Nepal today.
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Joint meeting of Xtreme Everest and the Nepal Mountain Medicine Society. Kathmandu, Nepal.
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Xtreme Everest plans to take children aged 8 and over on a research expedition to the Everest region next year.
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Dr Dan Martin, one of our Senior Lecturers will be featuring in a programme on BBC2. |
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