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Exercise 3- You are from Indio, CA and your friend Mike is from Denver, CO. The two of you travel to Nepal on an adventur
ascend
Mt. Everest. Your mountaineering guide is a local Sherpa youth. The Sherpa community of people migrated from their n
Tibet to Nepal 400 years ago. After two weeks of climbing up, you start experiencing dizziness, headaches, loss of appetite, s
disturbance, heart palpitations, ringing in the ears etc. Mike is slightly better off than you with milder symptoms. Surprisingly
Sherpa
guide is thriving at high elevations with no fatigue or breathlessness.
Now answer the following questions from an Anatomist's perspective.
Q3.1- Explain your sickness at high elevation? (1 pt)
Q3.2- Why do you think Mike's symptoms are milder than yours? (1 pt)
Q3.3- What enables the Sherpa to thrive at elevations that make others very sick? (1 pt)
Q3.4- Why do athletes, several months before a competition, often move to elevations higher than those at which they will
compete? (2 pts)