Going Higher: Oxygen, Man, and Mountains

Abstract

5th ed. The air about us -- Oxygen: the vital essence -- Moving air: respiration -- Moving blood: circulation -- Cells: the ultimate users -- Mountain illness: the air up high -- The body up high: cellular and vascular responses to hypoxia -- The spectrum of high-altitude illness: AMS/HACE -- Vision and the eye at altitude -- HAPE: high altitude pulmonary edema -- Chronic and subacute mountain illness -- Hypoxia in everyday life -- Acclimatization -- Genetics of high-altitude performance -- Prevention and treatment -- Operation Everest I and II -- Limits to work at altitude -- The mountain way.