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Dr Kami Sherpa 2, AMS and Porter Health


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Audio

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Authors

Loomis, Molly 

Abstract

Dr. Kami Sherpa discusses why high altitude mountain sickness seems to be increasing; the health of Rai porters; the future of altitude illness; measures being taken to improve porter education and porter health. These recordings were made on a trek in the spring of 2011 up to Mount Everest Base Camp. The recordings span a wide variety of topics from making and drinking chang to the work of Mount Everest's 'ice fall doctors'.

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.wav and .mp3 versions of audio file

Keywords

sherpa, everest, trekking, yak, herding

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World Oral Literature Project

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