I've recently started reading a book called Surviving the Extremes by Dr. Kenneth Kamler, a microscopic surgeon from New York. I haven't gotten that far into it yet, but the prologue is quite interesting.
Dr. Kamler is a microscopic surgeon from New York who is vice-president of the Explorers Club. He wanted to try something new to cure his monotonous life in the big city, so went off on an expedition to scale Mt. Everest as a medic for the other climbers. While on the mountain, a man fell 80 some feet head first into a crevasse, and didn't die. He starts the prolouge by saying, "If the chanting stopped, my patient would die." After the other climbers brought the injured man back to camp, Kamler went to work on him right away. These climbers were Sherpas, a native in the Everest region. They, unlike Kamler, believed in spiritual healing, and that the body can heal by men praying and chanting around him. The praying and chanting kept the man alive for a while, but his wounds were too great. This influenced Kamler to discover what happens to the human body when it is confronted with the most extreme environmental conditions. He continues the prologue talking about his first adventure with the Explorers Club. They were going to clim a 19,000-foot mountain in Peru called Taqurah. Even before they started the ascent, a truck in front of them tipped over a hillside leaving numerous amounts of and various injuries for Kamler (the only doctor present) to treat. After treating the patients, Kamler took them to the nearest clinic, and was named a local hero. That's where he ends the prologue and begins his adventure in the jungle.
very cool!
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