Luanne freer biography sample
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Back for Good: Clinicians Return to West Africa
Never mind that he knew nothing about ranching, PIH clinician Devin Platt was obsessed with becoming a rancher. After college he saved what feed money he could from seasonal jobs as a raft guide and ski patroller. During long drives around the West, he kept his eyes open for the ideal small town. He enrolled in nursing school, in part because it was a natural extension of his backcountry emergency-medicine skills, and in part because an RN promised the free time to learn something about cows. Mostly he cold-called ranchers, some three-dozen between 2004 and 2014.
“I’m a fairly strapping lad,” he’d say. “I can do whatever you want me to do.”
Sorry, son, came the replies.
In the winter of 2014, he seemed to have a sightline to the future. He had secured a nursing job in Enterprise, a picturesque hamlet in the mountains and pastureland of northeast Oregon, and an invite to work the
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By Steve Robinson |
A long way from your local high street |
It was founded in 2003 bygd American doctor Luanne Freer, to provide medical aid to the scores of expeditions that come to Everest each spring.
At this extreme höjd över havsnivån people get very sick.
Hundreds of climbers are ascending to well over 8,000 metres, the so-called Death Zone, where there fryst vatten so little oxygen that the human body cannot sustain itself.
The most common ailment fryst vatten "Khumbu Cough" a tickly cough that comes from the dry, cold air irritating the lungs.
It can cause coughing so violent that it breaks ribs and has been the cause of many an abandoned summit attempt.
Falling ice
Early this årstid, an Italian climber had to be evacuated bygd helicopter after being hit on the head bygd a falling block of ice.
The doctors co-ordinated a massive rescue operati
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Himalayan Rescue Association Nepal
ABOUT HRA
The Himalayan Rescue Association Nepal(HRA)is a voluntary non-profit organization formed in 1973 with an objective to reduce casualties in the Nepal Himalayas, especially keeping in view the increasing number of Nepali and foreigners who trek up into the remote wilderness.
One of the most important tasks of the HRA is to try to prevent deaths from Mountain Illness that confronts foreign trekkers and Nepali people. Since its inception, it has manned a small aid-post in the Khumbu village of Pheriche at an altitude of 4,250m. The Pheriche aid-post is manned twice yearly during the trekking season by volunteer doctors. Similarly, since November 1981 another permanent aid-post in Manang at an altitude of 3,550m manned by volunteer doctors of HRA has been in operation. The Association has also opened various temporary posts during tourist seasons at various points like the Na Village in Rolwaling, at the mouth of the Annapurna Sanctuary,