Everest the death zone
1999
DVD
In the wake of the 1996 disaster that took eight climbers in a single day, scientists follow a team of hikers to measure, for the first time ever, the toll high-altitude climbing takes on the heart, lungs, blood, and brain. Why do seemingly rational people make poor, sometimes fatal decisions as they approach the peak?
Item Details
ISBN: 9781578071975
Description:
- 1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
Target Audience Note: E.
Other Title:
- Nova. Everest [DVD]
- Nova (Television program)
Notes:
- For specific added features see container or interactive features menu while viewing disc.
- produced and directed by David Breashears and Liesl Clark.
- Narrated by Jodie Foster.
- DVD ; full screen presentation.
- Limited public performance rights.
- Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
- Palliser: Public performance rights.
Contents:
- Chapters: A living hell
- Sea level testing
- Base camp
- Khumbu ice fall
- The death zone
- Camp four
- Summit
- Descent
- Conclusion.
Publisher or Distributor Number: WG800
Control Number: 1897923
UPC: 783421287495
Publisher: South Burlington, Vt. : WGBH Boston Video, [1999]Series:
Subjects:
- Anoxemia -- Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)
- Carter, David.
- DVDs.
- Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)
- Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) -- Description and travel.
- Exercise -- Physiological aspects.
- Mount Everest Expedition (1997)
- Mountain sickness -- Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)
- Mountaineering -- Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)
- Mountaineering -- Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) -- Physiological aspects.
- Oxygen -- Physiological effect.
- Viesturs, Ed.
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