Citation

Lankford HV. Wilderness Environ. Med. 2019; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

Endocrinology and Nuclear Thyroidology, Richmond, VA. Electronic address: h.lankford@gmail.com.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.wem.2019.04.010

PMID

31229369

Abstract

This wilderness essay about high altitude deterioration will explore the historical mountaineering and medical literature with a limited discussion of physiology. The writings of mountaineers and physician-mountaineers provide an evocative supporting narrative to illustrate one of the problems of living at altitude.

Copyright © 2019 Wilderness Medical Society. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Language: en

Keywords

Everest; acclimatization; expedition; lassitude; metabolism