Could Scott have survived with today's physiological knowledge?
Could Scott have survived with today's physiological knowledge?
In 1911, members of a British expedition walked across the Antarctic to the South Pole, but in the punishingly hostile environment, retracing their steps back to the edge of the continent proved fatal. Over the last 100 years, knowledge about human physiology has greatly increased and, on the centenary of this most extreme of all journeys, this essay explores the true extent of the physiological stress experienced by the men involved and whether their fate was inevitable
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Halsey, Lewis George
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Stroud, Mike Adrian
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June 2011
Halsey, Lewis George
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Stroud, Mike Adrian
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Halsey, Lewis George and Stroud, Mike Adrian
(2011)
Could Scott have survived with today's physiological knowledge?
Current Biology, 21 (12), .
(doi:10.1016/j.cub.2011.04.015).
Abstract
In 1911, members of a British expedition walked across the Antarctic to the South Pole, but in the punishingly hostile environment, retracing their steps back to the edge of the continent proved fatal. Over the last 100 years, knowledge about human physiology has greatly increased and, on the centenary of this most extreme of all journeys, this essay explores the true extent of the physiological stress experienced by the men involved and whether their fate was inevitable
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Published date: June 2011
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