Doctor on Everest

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Leading up to the 1996 climb In which Dr, Kenneth Kamler played a crucial role aiding survivors of that disastrous ascent, Doctor on Everest is the never-before-seen portrait of how medicine is performed and lives are saved—or lost—in perilous conditions.
Through this intimate, gripping, and often humorous I first-person account, Dr. Kamler describes in sharp
; detail what life was like on Everest—how he treated his
j fellow climbers for everything from altitude sickness to
severe pulmonary edema and epidural hematoma; how he negotiated his dual role as doctor and climber; and how he reconciled the difficult separation from home and 'I family to pursue his lifelong dream.
Kamler, a micro-surgeon with a busy practice in Long I Island, New York, had attempted the summit three
times, serving as team doctor on each expedition. ' Harsh experience taught him invaluable lessons not only
about medicine as it is performed in the extreme, but about the power of the mountain and the... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Leading up to the 1996 climb In which Dr, Kenneth Kamler played a crucial role aiding survivors of that disastrous ascent, Doctor on Everest is the never-before-seen portrait of how medicine is performed and lives are saved—or lost—in perilous conditions.
Through this intimate, gripping, and often humorous I first-person account, Dr. Kamler describes in sharp
; detail what life was like on Everest—how he treated his
j fellow climbers for everything from altitude sickness to
severe pulmonary edema and epidural hematoma; how he negotiated his dual role as doctor and climber; and how he reconciled the difficult separation from home and 'I family to pursue his lifelong dream.
Kamler, a micro-surgeon with a busy practice in Long I Island, New York, had attempted the summit three
times, serving as team doctor on each expedition. ' Harsh experience taught him invaluable lessons not only
about medicine as it is performed in the extreme, but about the power of the mountain and the indomitable human spirit. However, nothing prepared him for what he faced in May of 1996. j As conditions on Everest rapidly deteriorated, the
medical situation became desperate. Kamler was faced with dire cases that would have been difficult to attend to under the best of circumstances—including Makalu Gau, who was found barely alive in the snow, and Beck Weathers, who was pronounced dead but later stumbled ! Into camp clinging to life.
Throughout, Kamler recalls with sensitivity and I insight the effects of fear, stress, and adrenaline on the
I entire group. He draws vivid portraits of his climbing com-
i panions, Including Rob Hall, leader of the New Zealand
team, who perished just below the summit in '96, and Nima Tashi, a Sherpa still walking on broken and dislocated ankles more than a year after a climbing fall. These and other relationships, forged under such mortal conditions, are rendered here so poignantly as to be unforgettable. Certain to be a classic of mountaineering literature. Doctor on Everest puts the reader in the place of a climbing doctor and reveals a deeper understanding of what it takes for both the human body and mind to function at high altitude.
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PRAISE FOR DOCTOR ON EVEREST
"As a medical doctor and veteran high-altitude climber, Ken Kamler brings a passionate and singular perspective to the dangers and rewards of climbing Everest."
—David Breashears, Co-Director and Leader, Everest IMAX Filming Expedition
"In Doctor on Everest, Dr. Kenneth Kamler has written an extraordinarily insightful account of the human price and the human rewards of high altitude mountaineering. Doctor on Everest is undoubtedly destined to become a classic of mountaineering literature."
—Faanya Rose, PresiHi^nt

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"Ken Kamler played an invaluable role during the many died. His description of these days makes
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