Name: The Oxygen Experiment: Hypoxia
Uploaded: 2020-01-01
Duration: 12 min 59 s
Description: Humans have always strived to summit mountains, but the higher we climb, the less oxygen is available. In the most extreme peaks, death can come quickly -- for most. A few rare people can condition themselves to live at high altitude for long periods of time … and one man wants to find out, why?

Humans have always strived to summit mountains, but the higher we climb, the less oxygen is available. In the most extreme peaks, death can come quickly -- for most. A few rare people can condition themselves to live at high altitude for long periods of time … and one man wants to find out, why?

Explore how extreme altitude starves the body of oxygen, and why a few people seem able to endure it. Through Dr. Nicolas Jaeger's daring self-experiments on Everest and Huascaran, this film reveals the science of hypoxia and the risks of pushing acclimatization to its limit. Sign up to watch a gripping true study of human survival.

At the edge of thin air, one climber turns his body into a test.

The Oxygen Experiment: Hypoxia

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