One lesson centers around the process of acclimatization. Humans were not designed to live at altitudes pushing 8,000 meters – the Death Zone. But our bodies can adjust. The process of ...

Continuing to higher altitudes without proper acclimatization can lead to potentially serious, even life-threatening illnesses. The major cause of altitude illnesses is going too high too fast. Given ...

DURING a year spent as medical officer to the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in the Antarctic at Marguerite Bay, I had the opportunity of making some observations on cold acclimatization in ...