Going Higher: Oxygen, Man, and Mountain

From the time of his historic expedition to Nanda Devi in the highHimalaya, Charles Houston, M.D., has asked: Why do people get sick in the mountains? What are the symptoms of hypoxia - lack of sufficent oxygen - that also occurs in everyday life, due to injury or disease? How can we best prevent, diagnose, and treat it? Houston answers these questions in an engaging, comprehensible style. Interweaves fascinating research discoveries with dramatic first-person accounts New chapters on vision and the eye at altitude and chronic and subacute altitude illness More on work and athletic training at altitude New material on the genetics of high altitude and individual susceptibility Updated information on fitness and gender issues Current developments in understanding and treating sea-level hypoxic illnesses