Death zone
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title:
Death zone
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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. The concept was conceived in 1953 by Edouard Wyss-Dunant, a Swiss doctor, who called it the lethal zone. All 14 peaks above 8000 m in the death zone are located in the Himalaya and Karakoram regions of Asia. Many deaths in high-altitude
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Altitudes above about 8,000 m (26,000 ft)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_zone
date created:
2004-04-09T19:26:33Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T08:17:27Z
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