(1) The three climbers – Ueli Steck from Switzerland, Italy's Simone Moro and British alpinist Jon Griffith – had been moving without ropes more than 7,000m (23,000ft) up the mountain's Lhotse face, which leads to the South Col, acclimatising for a later attempt on a new route.
(2) Blood was sampled at rest and after exposure to submaximal workload on the treadmill on three occasions: before and after 6 months physical conditioning (moderate physical activity), and after 6 weeks of an alpinistic expedition (strenuous physical activity).
(3) Between 1983 and 1984, 9 of 14 alpinists (6 male, 3 female) were subjected to the study at high altitude, that is, at Mt.
(4) (3) A female alpinist was discovered at the very end of the glacier after 29 years; it was concluded that the accident must have happened in the accumulation area.
(5) The variability in sensitivity to acute mountain sickness among individuals is a phenomenon well known to physicians and high altitude alpinists.
(6) Griffith said that without the bravery of half a dozen other climbers at Camp 2, he and his two partners – the Swiss alpinist Ueli Steck and the Italian Simone Moro – would have been killed in the incident on Saturday.
(7) The purpose of this study is to record continuously electrocardiograms of alpinists during different activities practiced in mountaineering, compare heart rate and QT interval at high altitude with those at sea level, and compare alpinists with nonalpinists.
(8) Keen believes there has been a shift from "solo Alpinists" to a system designed to underpin consistent success.
(9) Forty-two alpinists with a home residence of 800 to 1000 m served as control.
(10) The valuation of practicing alpine sport for diabetics has to be performed individually and depends always not only on the type of the alpinistic burden (kind and volume of the project) but also on the individual situation of metabolism and the according therapy.
(11) Readings of peak-expiratory flow rate (PEFR) in twelve healthy alpinists at sea level (Lima) and at 3800 m (Yanganugo) show a significant slight fall with altitude (p less than 0.05).
(12) Matt Helliger, alpinist and mountain guide, is Patagonia's alpine ambassador ( patagonia.com ) • Exodus ( exodus.co.uk ) offers an eight-day trek, including climbing Mont Blanc, from £1,999 including flights, accommodation and most meals Manaslu, Nepal, Edurne Pasaban Edurne Pasaban Over the years I have been on many expeditions to the Himalayas, and, having climbed the 14 eight-thousanders, I have been able to do a lot of trekking through different areas of these mountains.
(13) The circadian rhythm of the heart rate disappeared at extremely high altitude in several alpinists.
(14) Maximal oxygen uptake with extremely low piO2 decreases in high-trained Alpinists less than the working capacity which under conditions of extremely low piO2, is, mainly, limited by decreased potentiality to utilize oxygen by cardiac and skeletal muscles because of paO2 and pvO2 fall below critical values.
(15) A group of 12 amateur alpinists have been tested for mental performance at 4560 m and two months later at sea level.
(16) For Keen, who coached Chris Boardman to gold in 1992, it has changed the nature of British sport: "My career in sport, pre-lottery, was that of a classic Alpinist.
(17) Analysis was attempted on 14 alpinists (9 male, 5 female, ages 26-45) to determine changes in heart rate and QT interval using continuous ambulatory electrocardiograms recorded at sea level and high altitude.
(18) in contrast to the situation at high altitude, at medium height tourists from lowlands are not at higher risk of AMS than other alpinists.
(19) A group of 138 male alpinists has been explored before their departure to a high altitude expedition using an hypoxic gas mixture (equivalent altitude = 4.800 m), at rest and at exercise (5 minutes at 50 p. 100 maximal O2 consumption).
(20) In the years 1960-1985 psychiatric and psychological research was conducted among a group of 80 Polish alpinists.
Downhill
Definition:
(adv.) Towards the bottom of a hill; as, water runs downhill.
(a.) Declivous; descending; sloping.
(n.) Declivity; descent; slope.
Example Sentences:
(1) Distance running performance is slower on hilly race courses than flat courses even when the start and finish are at the same elevation, resulting in equal amounts of uphill and downhill running.
(2) The Downhills headteacher has said the school has worked hard to improve the quality of teaching.
(3) Like the parental strain, all three types of triple mutant showed moderate rates of downhill lactose transport and were defective in the uphill accumulation of sugars.
(5) Eighty-nine percent of the soleus m. lesions in the downhill runner group and 97% of those in the level runner group were A-band disruptions.
(6) Downhills' latest Ofsted assessment, in September, found that while pupils attained standards that are "well below national expectations … there is a clear trend of improvement".
(7) Physiological strain was greater in uphill than in level or downhill walking (P less than .001).
(8) Net sodium flux across the mucosa was also inhibited under 'downhill' sodium gradient conditions.
(9) The medical profession has gone downhill since the days when abortionists were anathema.
(10) It is proposed here that these amines function by catalyzing the isomerization of 11-cis-retinal thermodynamically downhill to form its all-trans congener.
(11) Despite the innocent verdict, it was essentially downhill from there.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Even those who’ve never seen a downhill ski race couldn’t help but sympathise with Bode Miller’s agony at missing out on a medal in what will surely be the last Olympic event of his career.
(13) This could be a NaCl pump, a downhill KCl transport mechanism, or a Cl-HCO3 exchange mechanism.
(14) Examination of each case individually suggests that for the majority, brief therapy was useful in stemming a downhill course.
(15) Heart rate and skiing velocities were analyzed over a flat, an uphill, and a downhill section, as well as for the total loop.
(16) Intrathoracic masses as a possible cause of "downhill" varices could not be diagnosed in any of these patients.
(17) In one man, hypomanic symptoms were caused by early HIV encephalopathy; he rapidly developed typical HIV dementia with a marked downhill course.
(18) The subsequent clinical course was progressively downhill.
(19) Lakoff and Johnson wrote out the most pervasive metaphors like this: GOOD IS UP; BAD IS DOWN (“We hit a peak last year, but it’s been downhill ever since”) ARGUMENT IS WAR (“Your claims are indefensible”) IDEAS ARE FOOD (“We shouldn’t spoonfeed our students”) UNDERSTANDING IS SEEING (“Let me point something out to you.
(20) As evidence that energy supplies for this "downhill" process did not become rate limiting after irradiation, we found that carbonylcyanide-m-chlorophenyl-hydrazone did not stimulate ONPG transport of irradiated cells.