Höhenmedizin

Until recently altitudes above 4000 m were mostly visited by trained and experienced mountaineers, today these altitudes are open to anybody thanks to increased wealth, leisure time and mobility as well as to commercial trekking and mountaineering agencies. Therefore, practitioners are increasingly confronted with questions concerning high altitude tolerance. Often such questions are asked by individuals that have no prior mountaineering experience, have never been to high altitudes and may even be under treatment for chronic diseases. Therefore, knowledge about the physiology of acclimatization to high altitude…