The impact of global warming on Mount Everest

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 383-385

  Moore, G W K ^a   Semple, John L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; MOUNTAINEERING; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; GLOBAL WARMING; HUMANS; MOUNTAINEERING; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION;

EID: 77049083394     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2009.1039     Document Type: Article

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