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Mountaineers on Mount Everest: Effects of age, sex, experience, and crowding on rates of success and death

Mount Everest is an extreme environment for humans. Nevertheless, hundreds of mountaineers attempt to summit Everest each year. In a previous study we analyzed interview data for all climbers (2,211) making their first attempt on Everest during 1990–2005. Probabilities of summiting were similar for...

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Autores principales: Huey, Raymond B., Carroll, Cody, Salisbury, Richard, Wang, Jane-Ling
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7449495/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32845910
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236919