Our integrated model of oxygen physiology has been rewritten and is now online at prognosis.org/physiology.

Have you, or someone you know, ever suffered from HAPE (high altitude pulmonary oedema)? If so, please visit the HAPE Database today to find out more, or click to register.

Tragic death in Peru

Every year we are contacted in connection with tragedies in the mountains. Understandably, many people choose not to speak out about the loss of their loved ones. We are grateful to those who do, because the best way to prevent more people from dying is to publicise the risks.

Please take the time to read some of the accounts of deaths at high altitude on this website, and this brave report from a son, describing how he lost his father in Peru in May 2012.

 The highest-flying bird ever recorded was a Ruppel's griffon vulture. This enormous bird, with a wingspan of more than 3m, was sucked into a jet engine in 1975, at an altitude of 11278m. That is more than 2km higher than the summit of Everest.


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