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High-altitude physiology

It’s called the Death Zone: the region on Mt. Everest above 25,000 feet where the risk of dying is highest. Those risks include hypothermia and frostbite, but the greatest risk of all would exist even if the top of the mountain were as balmy as the Bahamas: high-altitude sickness. Human beings evolved as sea level, …

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