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Various of Mt EverestLondon Science Museum2. Wide of Medical laboratory 3. Close Expedition Medical laboratory 4. Various of Mike Grocott Expedition Leader Preparing for medical test5. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eAP File Mt Everest, Nepal\u003cbr/\u003e1. Various of Mt Everest\u003cbr/\u003eLondon Science Museum\u003cbr/\u003e2. Wide of Medical laboratory \u003cbr/\u003e3. Close Expedition Medical laboratory \u003cbr/\u003e4. Various of Mike Grocott Expedition Leader Preparing for medical test\u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Grocott Expedition Leader:\u003cbr/\u003e\" The motivation  for us is that taking healthy volunteers to high altitude allows us to explore how normal, well individuals respond to low oxygen levels or Hypoxia.  And the reason we find that interesting is because most of us come from an intensive care back ground, and all our patients have Hypoxia as a fundamental problem.  The difficulty for us is that studying Hypoxia in those patients is very difficult because they have lots of other things going on, the problem that brought them to intensive care.  So this gives us the opportunity to look at a cleaner signal so we can get a better handle on what hypoxia is causing directly.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP File, Mt Everest, Nepal\u003cbr/\u003e6. Mt Everest \u003cbr/\u003eLondon Science Museum\u003cbr/\u003e7. Various of Mike Grocott Expedition Leader Preparing for medical test\u003cbr/\u003e8. Various of Mike cycling on research exercise bike\u003cbr/\u003e9. Wide of Medical laboratory tent\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE (English) Dan martin Red, Expedition research doctor  \u003cbr/\u003e\"Well here we are in one of the research tents which we intend to take to Everest.  We will have a tent like this at Everest base camp, and also higher up on the mountain.  They are especially made tents to keep us warm and so the equipment can function well at high altitude.  We have a selection of the equipment that we will be taking up the mountain with us here now.  Probably the most core component is the exercise bike. The trekkers and the climbers  who come on the trip we be exercising on the bicycle, and we will be measuring  the amount of oxygen that they will use whilst exercising on the bike. It's quite a heavy bike. It will break down into small pieces so we can carry it  up the mountain and construct  again and put it up in the tent.\" \u003cbr/\u003e11. Various of Mike on the research exercise bike\u003cbr/\u003e12.  SOUNDBITE (english) Mike Grocott Expedition Leader:\u003cbr/\u003e\" Ok well the two main elements - the first is that there are just over 200 hundred volunteers who will be flying out of London to Kathmandu, then flying up into the foot hills of the himalayas and trekking over eleven days to the everest base camp.  They will be studied at sea level before they leave, and along they way up to a large laboratory at Everest base camp, looking at their response to low oxygen levels.  And the second element is that we have a team of climbing doctors who will be hopefully ascending hopefully to the summit of Everest. They will be looking in more detail studying each other, and looking at lung function and brain function, and making some unique measurements of oxygen levels  hopefully right up too the summit of everest.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP File Mt Everest, Nepal \u003cbr/\u003e13. Mt Everest base camp \u003cbr/\u003eLondon Science Museum \u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE (English) Taroq Shiech, expedition volunteer:\u003cbr/\u003e\" I volunteered because it was a huge challenge for me. I have always aspired to go to Everest and the research behind it is interesting because it's going to help people with respiratory problems. My dad suffers for asthma and I will probably get it so I am hoping that the research is going to benefit me in the future.\" \u003cbr/\u003e15. Various of  Dan martin Red, Expedition research doctor demonstrating the heart monitor machine\u003cbr/\u003e16.  SOUNDBITE (English) Dan martin Red, Expedition research doctor:\u003cbr/\u003e\" We have a small sophisticated  camera  which when placed underneath the tongue, like this, we can then get pictures on the screen of tiny blood vessels under your tongue and all the blood cells flowing through them, so we can look at how peoples blood is flowing  at high altitude.  We believe that there are abnormalities  with blood flow at high altitude which we should be able to demonstrate quite nicely with this camera.\"\u003cbr/\u003e17. Various of Mike testing young girls heart beat.\u003cbr/\u003e18. Various of expedition climber putting on climbing equipment\u003cbr/\u003e19. SOUNDBITE (English) Dan martin Red, Expedition research doctor:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Here we have a selection of some of the climbing equipment.  A lot of it is standard climbing equipment.  We have ropes here which you might find on any normal climbing expedition, a harness to attach yourself to the rope you step in and put your legs inside the harness so you are safe and attached to each other.  Helmet mainly to stop ice fall hitting you on the head.\"\u003cbr/\u003e20. Various of climbing equipment \u003cbr/\u003e21. Close up of climbing torch and climbing helmet\u003cbr/\u003e22. Wide of Mt Everest\u003cbr/\u003eVisitors to the Science Museum in London have been able to step inside the tent which will house the world's highest medical laboratory. \u003cbr/\u003eXtreme Everest is a working group of intrepid medics who climb Mount Everest to find out the effects of high altitude on the human body.\u003cbr/\u003eThe results could help provide insights into the treatment of intensive care patients.\u003cbr/\u003eAt 8,844 metres high Mount Everest is the tallest mountain in  the world.\u003cbr/\u003eIt belongs to the Himalayan  Mountain range situated  between Nepal and  China.\u003cbr/\u003eClimbing Mount Everest is hugely challenging and very dangerous. \u003cbr/\u003eOn May 10th 1996, a storm on Mount Everest resulted in eight people who were trying to  climb the mountain dying on a single day.\u003cbr/\u003eAbove 25,000 feet, the air on Everest holds contains only a third of oxygen compared to that at sea level. \u003cbr/\u003eThis results in an increased chance of hypothermia, frostbite, high-altitude pulmonary, when lungs fill with fluid, and high altitude cerebral edema, when the brain swells up. \u003cbr/\u003eThe Everest team will be testing a group of more than 200 volunteers, who will climb to the base camp and conduct tests on the human body's reaction in extreme conditions. \u003cbr/\u003eVolunteers and team leaders and doctors will travel to Everest next spring.\u003cbr/\u003eIt will also be the only opportunity to try pedalling on the high tech Lode Corival exercise bike, that will be used in one of the most high profile medical experiments of the decade, before medical experts take all this hi-tech kit on their Xtreme Everest expedition next spring.\u003cbr/\u003eVisitors at london's Science Museum have already been able to go inside the Milsys Deployable Rapid Assembly Shelter (DRASH) tent that will be positioned around 7,000 metres (23,000 feet) on Everest's Western front, having been carried up there by seven climbers in 14 separate parts.\u003cbr/\u003eVisitors were also able to try on the extreme clothing the medics will have to wear during the expedition.\u003cbr/\u003eLed by the extreme medicine expert, Dr Mike Grocott from the UCL Institute of Human Health and Performance, the team will climb Mount Everest, carrying out experiments on themselves as they go up. \u003cbr/\u003eAs they climb, the team will take blood and monitor oxygen levels to study how the human body copes with extreme physical stress.\u003cbr/\u003eThe results of the Extreme Everest experiments could help anyone who has problems relating to low oxygen levels in the blood - from babies in incubators, to those with Cystic Fibrosis and people with lung diseases.  \u003cbr/\u003eVisitors had the oxygen levels of their blood tested with a simple electronic device that clips on to the finger.\u003cbr/\u003eDr Mike Grocott believes that at  8,850m  at the summit of Everest, there's so little oxygen getting into the lungs that the body 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