Even at this high altitude, the horses are physically able to handle the strain.
The team also is focusing on why climbers at high altitude experience poor sleep.
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Mallory, a 37-year-old schoolmaster at Charterhouse, had already proven himself at climbing at high altitude.
They have remained at a high altitude ever since, notwithstanding a recent dip in the figures.
Benedict is 85 and the city's high altitude poses a risk to the pope's health, say Vatican officials.
In Antarctica in particular you have high altitude to deal with which lends itself to being very windy.
The result is the culmination of a two-year research project called the Autonomous High Altitude Refuelling (AHR) programme.
But even high altitude skiing on glaciers is under threat in the long-term, as Alpine glaciers are receding.
Playing sport in conditions of high altitude places heavy demands on the body, forcing the heart to work harder.
Produced from wild agaves harvested at high altitude, it is a seductively dislocating, subtly knit but extreme stream of sensory information.
Mr. Costa sold the house for health reasons as he can no longer be in the high altitude, says Mr. Merkelbach.
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Because we're in such a high altitude, and I get very easily winded, so I'm so much more focusing on actual respiration.
The Canadian company was forced to suspend work recently on its Pascua Lama mine on the Chilean side of the high altitude Andes.
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The capsules containing items such as sweets, matches and ice cubes were carried into the earth's atmosphere by two high altitude balloons on Friday.
Developed by Northrop Grumman, it is designed to conduct high altitude surveillance missions and replace the U-2 spy planes, in use since the 1950s.
First, subtraction is a ground level strategy, not a high altitude theory, and is what people want me to talk about in speeches and seminars.
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The climbers at Base Camp are usually well acclimatised and know how to avoid altitude sickness, which is caused by moving to high altitude too quickly.
Miami's terminal radar approach control center, or Tracon, guides airplanes from high altitude into airport approach paths and then hands them over to airport control towers.
Ed Walby of Northup's High Altitude Long Endurance Systems Enterprise recently told Secure Freedom Radio, the Global Hawk requires fewer personnel for maintenance and operations.
The recorders revealed the pilots had failed to discuss repeated stall warnings and "had received no high altitude training" to deal with the situation, the bureau said.
Turns out the irrigated desert terrain, high altitude and resulting cool nights lengthen the growing season and create a more acid, but balanced, grape suited for sparkling wine.
The Predator, however, may be supplanted in any Gulf war by the Global Hawk, which can loiter for more than 24 hours at high altitude over a battlefield.
Helicopters perform poorly in hot weather and at high altitude.
Chefs help airlines design meals that perform at high altitude.
The device is able to hover at high altitude (over 15, 000 feet) for up to 20 hours -- keeping tabs of an area of over a hundred square miles.
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Depletion of ozone is caused by extreme cold temperatures at high altitude and the presence of ozone-destroying gases, such as chlorine and bromine, in the atmosphere, the ESA said.
His grandfather, Auguste, broke high altitude records in the '30s by designing a balloon with a pressurized cockpit, and later became the inspiration for Professor Calculus in the Tintin comics.
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