Surviving the Extremes: A Doctor’s Journey to the Limits of Human Endurance
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Dr. Kenneth Kamler has spent years observing just so what happens. A vice president of the legendary Explorers Club, he has climbed, dived, sledded, floated, and trekked through some of the most treacherous and remote regions in the world. A consultant for NASA, Yale University, and the National Geographic Society, he has explored undersea caves, crossed the frozen Antarctic wastelands, and stitched a boy’s hand back together even as kneeling in knee-deep Amazonian mud. He was the only doctor on Everest during the tragic expedition documented in Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air and helped handle its survivors. Kamler has devoted his life to investigating how our bodies answer to “environmental insults”-a nice way of saying the things that can kill us-and watched even as some succumbed to them and others, sometimes miraculously, overcome them.
Words like “extreme” and “survival” have lost some of their value from overuse and media hype. By showing us what happens when life itself is at stake, and the body’s capacities place to their greatest test, this book reminds us what they truly mean. Divided into six sections-jungle, open sea, desert, underwater, high altitude, and outer space-Surviving the Extremes uses first-hand testimony and documented accounts to illustrate what happens in environments where our instinctive survival strategies must become fully engaged. These tales reveal how infinitely complex are the workings of the human body-and also how heartbreakingly fragile. At the heart of this book is a quest for the source of our will to survive and the haunting question of why some can, and others cannot, summon its awesome and near mystical power at their moment of greatest need.
General practitioner, explorer, and masterful storyteller, Kamler takes us to the farthest reaches of the earth as well as into the uncharted territory within the human brain. Surviving the Extremes is a scientific nail-biter no reader will forget.
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This book was either ordered by mistake or sent to me by mistake. I will be returning it.
Rating: 3 / 5
I sought after to read a book about extreme conditions on earth. This book shows several different categories of extreme shape up and in each section you really get the feel for the environment which is exactely what I sought after. You will also read about how the human body reacts and this which is very fascinating and quite simple to know if you pay attention (although one or two descriptions might have been a bit over the top). Nevertheless very entertaining and at the same time informative and fascinating. The book nearly feels as a fiction at times although it is not. It was a very exciting read and I reccomend it highly! My favourite section must have been about the desert. =) (I gave this a weak 5 stars of 5 since it wasn’t perfect in capturing the “I want to know what happens next feeling” in every part of every section, some parts in the sections were a bit slow, like in the section of the jungle, a bit too undramatic for me although it was fascinating. It did hit it many enough times to deserve a 5 though.)
Rating: 5 / 5
I delight in the exciting adventures! Written with enthusiasm and awe of what the body is capable of. He is very adept at explaining, in layman’s terms complex bodily functions. Very hard to place down!
Rating: 5 / 5
Everytime I open the book and start reading I am in awe. The book is written so that it is simple to follow and know. Every college and high school biology class should include it in the curriculum.
It was a thrilling ride I will never forget.
Rating: 5 / 5
Surprisingly fantastic book. I read it by opportunity and loved reading about everything that happens in your body in survival situations. I couldn’t stop reading it.
Rating: 5 / 5