Welcome to the Xtreme Everest blog
- 25 Aug 06, 11:58 AM
Welcome to our Xtreme Everest weblog. We are off to climb the sixth highest mountain in the world (Cho Oyu in Tibet) tomorrow. This is a dress rehearsal for our scientific expedition to climb Everest next March. We are planning to blog repeatedly as we make our way up Cho Oyu. Who knows what the decreasing levels of oxygen will do to the quality of our blogging!
Xtreme Everest is a research project coordinated by the UCL Centre for Aviation, Space and Extreme (CASE) environment medicine - doctors and scientists studying human systems stretched to breaking point in extreme environments to increase our understanding of critically ill patients. The goal is to place a research team on the summit of Mount Everest in 2007 and make the first ever measurement of the level of oxygen in human blood at this altitude. This is the centrepiece of an extensive programme of research into hypoxia (low oxygen levels) and human performance at extreme altitude aimed at improving the care of the critically ill and other patients where hypoxia is a fundamental problem.
If that does not sound complicated enough, we are also aiming to test adaptation to altitude in 208 healthy volunteers, who will trek to Everest Base Camp.
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Tim - that's a very good question! - and nobody has answered you! - prob much to boring to sit in a decompression chamber but a lot cheaper and safer I would think.
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Alan - if you go to the top of the page and click on the blue 'Main', this will take you to the recent blog entries. If you then click on the black double arrow on the top left of the September calendar, this will take you back to August's entries, where you will find the response to Tim's question (Kay's reply, 30th August).
Kind regards, Mary
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