What Happens to Your Body When You Climb Everest? Peter Hackett MD

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Do you think you have what it takes to climb Mount Everest? Did you ever think about what it might be like, and if you did it, would you kill a bunch of brain cells and come home…..different? Or, maybe not at all….?

My guest, Dr. Peter Hackett, referred to as the Doctor of the Death Zone, feels that a person of moderate physical capacity could take on The Big E given the right conditions, with the use of bottled oxygen....

He also says to climb Everest it really helps to have been born with what he calls The Stupid Gene...the quality of being able to suffer for long periods of time, even willingly, in order to achieve a goal.

Dr. Peter Hackett LITERALLY wrote the book on altitude sickness….it’s called Mountain Sickness: Prevention, Recognition and Treatment (American Alpine Club Climber's Guide).

He climbed Everest in 1981 as a member and doctor on the American Medical Expedition...when he summited he was the 111th person ever to summit. In 2007 Peter founded the Institute for Altitude Medicine in conjunction with the Telluride Medical Center and the University of Colorado to provide clinical care and consultation, conduct research and develop educational programs to optimize health as well treat medical issues affecting people who either live at, or travel to, high altitudes.


So, do you have what it takes to climb Everest? What happens up there when someone climbs into the DEath Zone?

A few facts:

Let’s take the 2019 season, the season I was there on the Chinese side, as an example

There were 11 deaths….eight of those deaths are basically unexplained, the cause of death listed as either altitude sickness (3 of the climbers) or exhaustion during descent,...listed for six of them….and of those 11 deaths, six of those were climbers in their 50’s or 60’s, where the possibility of dying at altitude increases. What is going on at altitude and how is the body responding to the extremes of the death zone?


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