MEDEX Releases Free 'Travel at High Altitude Guide'
October 6, 2007 - Press Release
A new 'Travel at High Altitude' guide, produced by Medical Expeditions and Medex, was launched at the Mountain & Wilderness Medicine World Congress in Aviemore (3-6 October).
Planning a trip to the mountains? Will you be going higher than 3000m? How much do you know about high altitude, the 'thin air' and how it can affect your body?
If you are going high and want to stay happy and healthy, you need to know about:
- conditions that are 'uncomfortable' and conditions that can kill you
- how to acclimatise properly so you stay well
- what you should do if you become unwell
Travel at High Altitude covers all of these issues in an easy-to-read style and has lots of practical advice for those venturing to altitude.
Medex has produced a booklet which is freely available to anyone. It is written in very simple English and has lots of practical advice for those venturing to altitude. Two resolutions are available as Adobe PDF's depending on the speed of your connection. The booklet may be printed or copied as required.
The guide is available in PDF format for download for free from the Medex website. There are two versions available - pocket sized booklet or A4.
If you would like to help publicise this booklet then please feel free to download and print the following promotional downloads:
There are 2 versions of the Travel at High Altitude booklet available for download - booklet and A4.
For those people who have printers capable of printing in duplex mode (printing on both sides of the paper), the "A5 booklet" versions will be better. These allow the entire booklet to be printed out in the correct order so that the sheets can be stacked, one on top of another, and stapled together. It will be necessary to ensure that the "flip" - long edge or narrow edge is set correctly so that the print on both sides stays the same way up. Experiment with just a few pages to ensure it is working correctly. On printers where you have to turn the paper and feed it back in again yourself, you will again have to make sure you turn the pages over in the correct way.
The A4 versions are ordered according to the page number and can be used when duplex printing is not available. These are formatted with two pages per sheet in page order, and should ideally be printed out on A4 paper, otherwise the images and text will be very small.
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