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High adventure, medical science, and mountaineering become one in this splendid book, a spirited account of a recent event that was unique in American medicine and in Himalayan expeditions. For the first time, an attempt was made to climb Mount Everest for the express purpose of conducting scientific and medical research. This book recounts the story of that climb, the American Medical Research Expedition. John West captures fully the exhilaration, endurance, and dangers of the climb while conveying the nature and importance of the medical experiments.
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Everest : The Testing Place
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McGraw-Hill Companies, The, 1985
ISBN 10: 0070695024
ISBN 13: 9780070695023
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Everest: The Testing Place
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Everest: The Testing Place
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McGraw-Hill, Blacklick, Ohio, U.S.A., 1985
ISBN 10: 0070695024
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Everest: The Testing Place.
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McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, NY, 1985
ISBN 10: 0070695024
ISBN 13: 9780070695023
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Hardcover. First Edition (1985); First Printing, unstated, but indicated by a complete numerical sequence. Very Near Fine in Fine DJ: The Book shows only a minute stain at the bottom edge of the front board (not the panel itself, but the bottom edge); else flawless; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of any creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, or labels. A handsome very nearly-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing a single unobtrusive flaw. Bright and clean. Virtually "As New". The DJ is flawless; the price is unclipped; mylar-protected. Virtually 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (9.3 x 6.3 x 1 inches). xii, 187 pages. Sixteen-page section of color photographs. Text interspersed with graphs and tables. Foreward by Sir Edmund Hillary.Language: English. Weight: 1 pound, 2.5 ounces. Hardback with DJ. Memoirs of Dr. John West's participation in a groundbreaking American medical expedition to the summit of Everest. During the ascent, the group of 13 physicians recorded observations of the physical effects of the environment on climbers and were able to complete the highest ever experiment at the summit. First Edition (1985); First Printing, unstated, but indicated by a complete numerical sequence. Seller Inventory # 52252
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Everest--The Testing Place
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Condition: very good, very good. First Printing. 24 cm, 187, illus. (some color), bibliography, index. Foreword by Sir Edmund Hillary. Results of the American Medical Research Expedition to Mt. Everest, 1981. This was the first attempt to climb Mount Everest for the express purpose of conducting scientific and medical research. Seller Inventory # 34884
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EVEREST: THE TESTING PLACE.
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Jack D. Ives, Montologist: Festschrift for a Mountain Advocate.
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