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Medex Altitude Travel Handbook
This simple, plain-English handbook was written by the
Medex
team in order to provide easy access to important information for laypeople
travelling to high altitude. It will tell you what you need to know about altitude sickness, frostbite, hypothermia, and much more.
You can download a full copy from the medex website by clicking on one of the following links:
Altitude Travel Handbook
A5, low resolution (880kb).
A5, high resolution (3886kb).
A4, low resolution (840kb).
A4, high resolution (3827kb).
If you would like to help to publicise this excellent handbook on behalf of the Medex team, please download one of the following flyers:
Altitude Travel Handbook flyer
Altitude Travel Handbook credit card-sized flyer
This page last updated November 2007
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| This well-written, free altitude handbook provides information for laypeople on many medical aspects of travel to high altitude. We strongly recommend it to all travellers to high altitude. |
Do you know someone who has had HAPE? Please tell them about the International HAPE Database.
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