The Expedition Begins
- 19 Mar 07, 06:02 AM
Hello from the Horizon filming team! For the next three months we will be out here in Nepal, filming an extraordinary medical expedition to Mt Everest. We hope to keep you posted on what we are doing, how the expedition is going, and any other news between now and when the programme is broadcast, in the Autumn 2007 series of Horizon. We'll also be posting some short broadband films on the website while we're out here, so keep an eye out for those.
The expedition we are filming is called Xtreme Everest. It's a team of doctors and medical researchers, whose goal is to perform the largest ever experiment on how the human body copes with low oxygen. They'll be climbing the highest mountain in the world so that they deliberately deprive themselves of oxygen; and they'll carry out a barrage of tests while they're doing it.
What they learn will apply directly to people suffering from all sorts of medical condions at home. If you have a problem with your heart, your lungs or your circulation, the result is that your body doesn't get enough oxygen. Ultimately, if it can't get enough oxygen you will die. By putting themselves in a low oxygen environment the team hopes to discover more about seriously ill people in hospital.
This blog is intended to be a personal account from us, as we follow the expedition into the Himalayas. We will be trying to share what it will be like to live and film in this harsh enviroment.
To find out more about Xtreme Everest check out their web page
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I had only a question.
What happened at high altitude with
your oxygen supply to the cells?
Your body makes more red blood cells or your red blood cells release oxygen more easily thanks to the Bohr
effect or both (more red bloodcells and also the Bohreffect)
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Hi
this may sound like sour grapes because I would love to also be on a jolly in Everest. What is the merit of this research? We have plenty of peolpe here in Oxford UK at near sea level who are starved of oxygen. They are in the ITU hooked up to ventilators.
rgds
Charlie
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