What happens to your body at the top of Mount Everest - Andrew Lovering
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If you teleported from sea level to the top of Mount Everest, things would go bad fast. At an altitude of 8,848 meters, you would likely suffocate in minutes. However, for people that make this journey over the course of a month, it’s possible to survive at the peak for hours. So what happens in our bodies that allows us to endure this incredible altitude? Andrew Lovering investigates.
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Additional Resources for you to Explore
Want to learn more about climbing and high altitude? Please take a look at the Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme for outstanding resources on mountaineering and mountain medicine. Also, for more in-depth information on high altitude physiology and medicine from one of the world’s foremost expert on high attitude medicine, Dr. Peter Hackett, please visit the Centers for Disease Control. If you are interested in learning who the latest and greatest “rock stars” are in the climbing world, look no further than Rock and Ice and Climbing Magazines. Finally, outside of being at high altitude, there are many clinical or medical conditions that can cause hypoxemia (low blood oxygen) and these are beautifully outlined here by the Mayo Clinic. Be safe out there and climb on!
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Meet The Creators
- Educator
- Andrew Lovering
- Director
- Vitalii Nebelskyi, and action creative agency
- Narrator
- Addison Anderson
- Storyboard Artist
- Alexandra Bolotova
- Animator
- Alexandra Bolotova, Vitalii Nebelskyi, Volodymyr Boiko
