death zone

altitudes above which the pressure of oxygen is insufficient to sustain human life for an extended time span

Details

Instance of: region
Subclass of: region
Has parts: main peak
Location: Himalayas, Karakoram
Elevation: 8000 m
different from: Zone of Death
discoverer or inventor: Edouard Wyss-Dunant
facet of: mountaineering
handled, mitigated, or managed by: bottled oxygen
has characteristic: deficiency, impossibility, partial pressure
has effect: hypoxia, high altitude pulmonary edema, high altitude cerebral edema, death
named after: death
time of discovery or invention: 1953

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