EMS Recap: High Altitude Illnesses
High-altitude illness is the general term encompassing the syndromes affecting people traveling to higher elevations.
Spring is here and you’re off with your friends to Colorado for as much skiing as you can get in the next nine days. Departing Houston Intercontinental at 8 a.m., arriving in Denver at 11 a.m. and heading for the lodge, you arrive at the summit of Winter Park by 1 p.m. You and your entourage have gone from near sea level to over 12,000 feet in five hours, skied half the day, eaten a hearty dinner, had a couple beers and hit the rack to dream about the next full day of alpine adventuring.
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