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Description: Throughout the month of June, 2000, this Web site reported from a medical station at 14,200 feet where doctors and volunteers tend to sick and injured climbers.
Can medical science forecast why some people get sick climbing at high altitude while others don't? Read accounts of the Spring 2000 expedition sent in from the field. Explore the demanding route from base camp to the 20,320-foot summit.
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Page title:NOVA | Deadly Ascent | PBS
Keywords:Denali, mountain, climb, climbing, high, altitude, America, American, McKinley, hypoxia, pulmonary, cerebral, edema, HAPE, HACE, Alaska, Athans, Grunsfeld, Hackett, Donner, mountaineer, mountaineering, core, temperature, body, medical, station, rescue, surviving, survival, skill, frostbite, hypothermia, oxygen, deprivation, Coombs, Palmer, self, arrest, snow, cave, crevasse, igloo, instruction, acute, sickness, science, NOVA, education, public, television, PBS
Description:In this companion Web site to the NOVA program Deadly Ascent, discover what it takes to climb North America's highest peak, read dispatches from the field, learn extreme weather survival skills, find out how severe cold can damage the human body, take an interactive tour of the route to Denali's summit, and more.
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