成人快手

Medicine at 5600m

• Kay
• 17 Sep 06, 06:58 AM

It is Saturday, September 17th, and there are only four of us at base camp at the moment. This is because 11 members of the team went up to interim camp yesterday to stay the night, and then ascended to camp one today. They are now on their way back to us. Four more members of the team have gone up to interim base camp tonight to carry out the same acclimaisation ritual. The reson the whole team did not go up together yesterday is that we had a casualty from another team to look after and evacuate.

A male climber from another team developed a weakness on his right side, and had to be stretchered off the mountain to our campsite last night. Six of us stayed behind to look after the casualty overnight before he was stretchered down to intermediate base camp this morning. Taking a casualty down the mountain on a stretcher is difcult in the extreme, as the terrain is extremely uneven. The Sherpas have been absolutely awesome, taking it in turns to carry the casualty. Both stages of the evacuation have taken around 4 hours. I shall leave Chris Imray to outline this case in more detail, and Denny Levett to discuss another case of a retinal bleed.

Our team have been consulted on a number of occasions now, both by members of other climbing teams and sherpas who have felt unwell. One case dealt with by Mike Stroud and Denny Levett involved giving advice to a clmber who had had peptic ulcers in the past. The plan over the next two days is to have some rest and then start moving further up the mountain again. Mike Grocott and myself are both trying to shake off a bout of flu like symptoms. Hence, neither of us have been higher than Cho Oyu base camp yet.