hey hey there!!! Any plan for this summer.. ;)
Oriol Rios
Ei ei there!!
I've been awkwardly quiet but... Do you remember what are we doing by the end of July???????? ARARAT is waiting for us!!!!
Let's do some hands in and tackle some tasks:
1. Training.
mmm yes... how is it going??? We have 2 month an a half left.. and it's time to take it seriously... we won't get fit with one month... so.. take advantage of the good weather and go out and enjoy it... The gauges should be pointing at 10 by this time... and only Xavier seems to be following the plan... don't discourage yourself, if you don't have much time, just go for a little run.. but do it.. otherwise you're gonna regret it in two month (I'm including myself)....
I redesigned the training web page and the link to the form is now embedded at the top of the page... (so no more excuses to go running and not post it.. ;) )
2. Scientific project.
As Xavier mentioned, I attended a super interesting talk about the mountain sickness (altitude). Among the speakers, the youngest Brit to climb Everest, and a doctor who investigates this sickness and has a super interesting research project (http://www.altitude.org/home.php) ... as I was super motivated, I emailed him offering our expedition to perform extra experiments regarding this (i assumed you were willing to as well.. ;) -mail below-... but unfortunately.. I haven't got any answer yet ;( ... Although the oxiometer (see below) is still a good idea.. maybe we can find one somewhere and take our own measurements??? ;)
3. Organization
I've been pretty busy but I'm in it again.... I attach the first draft about the project. It has to be adapted to each case if we want to present it.. but at least it's a starting point... Taylan, maybe a little bit more about what we expect to find there gonna be interesting.
I will start meeting with the people here to start arranging material and stuff (and maybe plan some excurions-trainings) ... Do we have the climbing permit ready Taylan? And what about the locals?
Stay tuned... I'm back! ;)
Big big hug!
Oriol,
FYI: mail to Dr Baille
Dear Dr Baillie ,
I attended your talk on altitude effects in the the Edinburgh International Science Festival last Saturday.
I'm
a postgraduate student at University of Edinburgh and I'm involved in a
expedition to climb mount Ararat (5.165m) this summer. The aim of the
expedition is to collect soil samples from the top of the mountain for a
biology project (nematodes study). The expedition team is composed of
physicists, chemists and engineers, most of them PhD students. Many of
us have experience in Alps (>4000m) and some have been climbing above
5000m in South America . However, this expedition is a great challenge
since we are 14 members and we are organizing everything (from planning
to hiking there).
As a climbing responsible I would like to pose you two little questions/proposals:
1.
Unfortunately, we don't have any doctor/medical student in the team,
although some of us have basic medical training. We are aware of
mountain sickness and we won't underestimate it. That's why I wanted to
ask your opinion about carrying one of those finger mounted pulse
oximeter. Will it help us to quickly diagnose any mountain sickness
problem?. (I personally haven't seen people carrying it in the mountain)
2. Given that we are all motivated scientists and, after discovering
the Altitude.org project, I'm wondering if you'll be interested in any
data/experiment that we can carry out during our expedition.
We will be really happy of expanding the scientific contribution of our expedition.
Thank you for your time,
Oriol Rios,
PS:
I wanted to talk to you on saturday but I didn't get the chance.
However I'll be glad to meet you if you would like any further
information about expedition.
Eudald Correig Fraga
Oriol
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Oriol P.