Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Life is possible at the hypoxic levels of the summit of Mt. Everest






Photo from Wikipedia


New publications on ophthalmological studies and altitude adaptation

The effect of High to Low Altitude Adaptation on the

Multifocal Electroretinogram.

Department of Ophthalmology, Glostrup Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Glostrup, Denmark
High Altitude Pathology Institute, La Paz, Bolivia; Department of Ophthalmology, Glostrup Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Glostrup, Denmark

click here to view the Abstract

Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2009 Feb 21.


extracted from:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19234353

Monday, March 09, 2009

L'Internaute website: Football at 6542 m

The website L'Internaute Sport has published a series of
incredible Sports experiences.

Among them:

floating tennis courts,
marathon in space,
tennis heliport in Dubai,
mountain biking,
golf on snow,
tennis on top of water,
Ski in the dessert,
Cricket in the Himalayas,
tennis in a boat
and the football (soccer) game played on the summit of Mt. Sajama at 6542 m. that the High the Altitude Pathology Institute organized in August 2001.

Click here to view the photos.


Click here to read about the Sajama football game.