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Factual: Science & Nature: Science & Technology

Horizon tells amazing science stories and reveals worlds you've never seen before.

Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.

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Horizon: Everest: Doctors in the Death Zone

Rob Liddell

Andrew Cohen

Horizon: 2007-2008: Everest: Doctors in the Death Zone: Part 2

Factual: Health & Wellbeing

Part 2 2007-2008

BBC Two - Horizon, 2007-2008, Everest: Doctors in the Death Zone, Part 2

This two-part special documentary follows an extraordinary team of climbing doctors.

A team of climbing doctors hopes to discover a genetic link that allows some to survive low-oxygen conditions while others die.

The extraordinary expedition of climbing doctors reaches a tense conclusion as Horizon follows Dr Mike Grocott and his team as they attempt to reach the summit of Everest and measure the amount of oxygen in their blood.

The doctors findings could rewrite our understanding of the human body and help save the lives of critically ill patients in intensive care. Their greatest goal is to discover a genetic link that allows some to survive low oxygen when others die. But to do this they must go to the extreme.

Standing 8850m in the sky, Everest is in the 'death zone' and by climbing into this hostile environment they will be putting their own lives on the line.

Horizon: 2007-2008

Horizon: 2007-2008: Everest: Doctors in the Death Zone

Everest: Doctors in the Death Zone

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Two-part special following an extraordinary team of climbing doctors.

Two-part special following an extraordinary team of climbing doctors on an expedition like no other to make scientific history and experience the ultimate in mountaineering.

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