Effects on the Human Body: Mount McKinley

What effects do extreme cold, high altitude and severe weather have on the human body?

Alain Bouthillier at the Aconcagua summit (January, 2010)

Click on the following link to learn about: Body Breakdowns.

Click here to listen to a 8:27 min podcast from 2006 discussing "High Altitude and the Body" by Dr. Peter Hackett, executive director of the Institute for Altitude Medicine in Telluride, Colorado.