Describes the effects of high altitude on the human body, explains oxygen's role in respiration, and looks at what altitude illness can teach us about other respiratory problems

Going Higher: The Story of Man and Altitude

Sports & Outdoors

Houston, Charles S.

Mountaineering

Little,Brown & Co

Describes the effects of high altitude on the human body, explains oxygen's role in respiration, and looks at what altitude illness can teach us about other respiratory problems

From the Foreword:Hypoxia is of fundamental importance in many pathophysiological processes.  Its causes are diverse and its impact on cell and organ function are of major importance.  Hypoxia is also the major accompaniment of ascent to high altitude, whether it be in aircraft or in climbing mountains, and is the basic stimulus to a variety of adaptations and maladaptations which occur in that environment.

Hypoxia, man at altitude

Jones, Norman L.

Sutton, John R.

G. Thieme

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Going high, the story of man and altitude

American Alpine Club

Hypoxia: The Tolerable Limits

Medical Books

Basic Sciences

Brown & Benchmark Pub

Going higher: The story of man and altitude

C.S. Houston

Review\n"Houston and Bates were the first Americans to climb K2, the world's second highest mountain peak. Such an endeavor is remarkably dangerous even now, but reading of the use of equipment as simple as woolen mittens, canvas and wood packs, etc., illustrates the bravery--or perhaps foolhardiness--of such an undertaking then. Five Miles High covers their first climb in 1938 (this account was published a year later), while 1954's K2 chronicles the 1953 climb, which proved far more difficult." --Library Journal "Here is a great story, simply and grippingly told, which the glory of Everest should not be allowed to obscure." --New York Times\nWhen eleven climbers died on K2 on August 1, 2008, it was a stark reminder that the world's second-highest mountain has, for more than a century, been regarded as the most difficult and dangerous of all―for every four people who reach the top, one dies in the attempt. K2, The Savage Mountain tells the dramatic story of the 1953 American expedition, led by Charles S. Houston, when a combination of terrible storms and illness stopped the team short of the 28,251-foot summit. Then on the descent, tragedy struck, and how the climbers made it back to safety is renowned in the annals of climbing.\nK2, The Savage Mountain captures this sensational tale with an unmatched power that has earned this book its place as one of the classics of mountaineering literature.\nFrom the Back Cover\nWhen eleven climbers died on K2 on August 1, 2008, it was a stark reminder that the world's second-highest mountain has, for more than a century, been regarded as the most difficult and dangerous of all―for every four people who reach the top, one dies in the attempt. K2, The Savage Mountain is the remarkable first-hand account of the 1953 American expedition, led by Dr. Charles S. Houston, when a combination of storms and illness stopped the team short of the 28,251-foot summit. On the descent, tragedy struck. How they made it back to safety is renowned in the annals of climbing.

K2, The Savage Mountain

History

Bates, Robert H.

Asia

LYONS PRESS+

The 1953 American expedition to the second highest peak in the world.

K2 the Savage Mountain

Americas

Lyons Pr

This is the epic account of the 1938 American Karakoram expedition to the summit of K2, a climb considered more treacherous and difficult than Everest. Equipped with the most "modern" gear available to them--wool mittens, canvas tents, and buckle-up, leather-strapped cramp-ons--this group of young men set out to surmount the insurmountable. A four-month-long journey would take them nearly 27,000 feet above sea level and hundreds of miles from any sign of humanity. 
 With a shrewd wit and a survivalist's sense of determination, four of the six climbers provide an intimate and gripping account of their adventures, evoking all the terror, excitement, and pure exaltation of standing, five miles high, on a part of the globe where no person has stood before.

Five Miles High: The Thrilling True Story of the First American Expedition to K2

Travel

Petzoldt, Paul K.

American Karakoram Expedition 1938

Burdsall, Richard Lloyd

House, William P.

Streatfield, Norman R.

The dramatic story of the 1953 American expedition to K2, the second-highestbut generally considered the most difficult and dangerousmountain in the world. The Houston-led team failed in their attempt and tragedy struck them, but their courage and concern for each other has made their story one of the pinnacles of American Himalayan mountaineering. 
First published in 1954 Introduction by James Wickwire New afterword by the authors New maps, color and b&amp;w photos

K2: The Savage Mountain (The Adventure Library)

Adventure Library

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