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This is an account of the aspects of high altitude medicine and pathology illustrated in the film ‘Man at High Altitude’, made during two expeditions to the Andes of Central Peru in 1973 and 1975 by Professor Donald Heath and Mr. David Reid Williams.

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  • Heath, D. and Williams, D. R., “Man at High Altitude”, Churchill Livingstone. London and Edinburgh (1977).

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Williams, D.R. (1980). Man at High Altitude. In: Cumming, G., Bonsignore, G. (eds) Pulmonary Circulation in Health and Disease. Ettore Majorana International Science Series, vol 3. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1721-1_15

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