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Frances Ashcroft
BMJ 2002; 325 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/sbmj.0211436a (Published 01 November 2002) Cite this as: BMJ 2002;325:0211436a
- Suzie Thompson, second year medical student1
- 1University of Aberdeen
As a climbing medic with a huge appetite for stories of wilderness medicine, I jumped for joy when I found Frances Ashcrofts Life at Extremes. After all, my weekend had involved a not so thrilling rummage around a bookshop in Ambleside; I needed something exciting, I needed extreme.
Where better to start than exploring the high altitude world of Reinhold Messners first Everest ascent without supplementary oxygen in 1978, …
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