Why Are So Many People Dying On Everest?
Why are so many people dying on Mount Everest, asks doctor and climber, Andrew Sutherland in this week's BMJ?It used to be thought that it would be physiologically impossible to climb Mount Everest with or without oxygen. In 1953 Hillary and Tenzing proved that it was possible to reach the summit with oxygen and in 1978 Messner and Habeler demonstrated it was possible without oxygen. [click link for full article]
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