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Pride and prejudice at high altitude

23 Jan 2020

Tensions between foreign climbers and Sherpas began over 200 years ago, a new study suggests

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Dr Andrew Murray (far right) with his colleagues Dr Nick Knight and Dr Cameron Holloway on the approach to Everest Base-camp

'Extreme Sleepover #1’ – breathless at Everest base camp

22 Dec 2011

In the first of a series of reports contributed by Cambridge researchers, physiologist Dr Andrew Murray studies responses to extreme altitude as part...

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La Paz, Chile

Prenatal origins of heart disease

04 Jan 2009

Studies in La Paz, the highest city in the world, are helping to uncover a link between prenatal conditions and heart disease in later life.

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