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The avalanche is reported to have started between Pumori (Left) and Lingtren (middle peak) [2] Khumbutse to the right Mount Everest was approximately 220 kilometres (140 miles) east of the epicentre, and between 700 and 1,000 people were on or near the mountain when the earthquake struck, [3] [4] including 359 climbers at Base Camp, many of whom had returned after the aborted 2014 season. [5]
Agitation and palpitations, [3] "hypertension, irregular heart rate, insomnia, nervousness, tremors and seizures, paranoid psychosis, heart attacks, strokes, and death", [1] [15] kidney stones [15] Flavonoids (contained in many medicinal plants) [ 5 ]
The summit of Mount Everest lies in the death zone. In mountaineering, the death zone refers to altitudes above which the pressure of oxygen is insufficient to sustain human life for an extended time span. This point is generally agreed as 8,000 m (26,000 ft), where atmospheric pressure is less than 356 millibars (10.5 inHg; 5.16 psi). [1]
India's food safety regulator will conduct quality checks on products of popular Indian spice brands MDH and Everest Group after Hong Kong banned the sale of some products for allegedly containing ...
The Himalayan Database: The Expedition Archives of Elizabeth Hawley is a large digital and published record of mountaineering in the Nepalese Himalayas since 1903 (i.e. it does not include the Pakistan Himalaya peaks such as K2 and Nanga Parbat etc.), maintained by Richard Salisbury who digitised the records.
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Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements is a peer-reviewed open access medical journal covering neurology with a focus on hyperkinetic movement disorders including tremor, emphasizing non-Parkinsonian disorders.
Lincoln Ross Hall OAM (19 December 1955 – 20 March 2012) was a veteran Australian mountaineer, adventurer and author.Lincoln was part of the first Australian expedition to climb Mount Everest in 1984, which successfully forged a new route.