The silver hut expedition, 1960-1961

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 93-101

  Milledge, James S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

control of breathing; electrocardiography; exercise performance; history of altitude physiology

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; HEMOGLOBIN; NITROGEN; OXYGEN;

ACHIEVEMENT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE DISEASE; APPARATUS; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BLOOD VOLUME; BREATHING; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLIMBING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EXERCISE; FUNCTION TEST; GAS EXCHANGE; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RATE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LUNG DIFFUSION; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; LUNG VENTILATION; MOUNTAINEERING; NEPAL; NUTRITION; OXYGEN TENSION; PLASMA VOLUME; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR ACTIVITY; SATISFACTION; SPRING; TRAVEL; WEATHER; WINTER; ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; COLD; HEMODYNAMICS; HISTORY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; COLD TEMPERATURE; EXPEDITIONS; HEMODYNAMICS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MOUNTAINEERING; NEPAL; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASONS;

EID: 77954894535     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2009.1087     Document Type: Article

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