Bob R found this article in the Wall Street Journal.
Pentagon Seeks Remedy for Altitude Sickness, written by Stephanie Simon.
Benjamin Levine is spending the spring recruiting college students in Dallas for an all-expense-paid vacation to the Rocky Mountains. Naturally, there's a catch.
The students will spend their time in Breckenridge, Colo., doing sit-ups, push-ups, wind sprints and a 12-mile hike to an elevation of 12,000 feet. If all goes as planned, some will also get quite sick.
Troops train in Colorado for high altitudes.
The $2.5 million research project, funded by the Pentagon, aims to solve a difficult problem for the military. When troops are parachuted into high-altitude battlefields, many come down with acute mountain sickness.
..The new research aims to develop a simple, inexpensive blood test that will predict which soldiers are most likely to get altitude sickness...
A test like that would be useful to those Whitney first timers that never go to high altitude except to bag Whitney.
