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  1. Man at High Altitude (1977 Film)

    Director
    D A Heath
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shows how a man acclimatizes and how many animal species adapt to high altitude. Looks at the body build of the Quechua Indians and at their biologically successful life in the Andes, contrasted with the...

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  2. Into Thin Air (2005)

    Subject
    Medical sciences; Sports science

    This programme looks at the physical and mental effects that high altitude has on the body of climbers. Tim Malyon investigates the psychological drive, the physiological consequences and the payoffs of...

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  3. Trading Societies of Western Nepal (1972 Film)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 53 minutes), £50.00

    Discusses the traditional trans-Himalayan trade links the relatively low-altitude, grain-growing regions of Nepal with high-altitude Tibet, the traditional source of most of the salt and wool imported by...

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  4. Breathing Deeply (1993)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 24 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

    On a rain-swept Welsh mountainside members of the 1994 British Mount Everest Medical Expedition test their physiological monitoring equipment. Having retreated to the dry, the doctors describe the...

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  5. Action of the Sun (1950 Film)

    Subject
    Astronomy
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A classified selection of types of solar prominences. Made at the High Altitude Observatory of the Universities of Harvard and Colorado.

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  6. Nostalgia for the Light (2012)

    Director
    Patricio Guzman
    Subject
    Archaeology; Astronomy; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 107 mins.), £9.99

    A documentary drama by Patricio Guzman on the high altitude desert in Chile called Atacama. Atacama is highly significant to archaeologists for preserving the oldest known mummies in the world, and for being...

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  7. Back from the Brink: The Science of Survival (2008)

    Subject
    Biology; Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £6.00

    The five 2007 Royal Institution Christmas lectures given by Dr Hugh Montgomery, a diver, skydiver, high-altitude mountaineer and intensive care doctor. He discusses how the body can cope with some of the...

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  8. Plants: Problems with Water (1991 Video)

    Producer
    Aileen Llewellyn
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    When does biology seem to outstrip simple physics? Ordinary air pressure can only raise a column of water up ten metres, but a giant redwood tree can raise it more than 100 metres. The film demonstrates how...

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  9. Everest: Man Vs Mountain (2006)

    Subject
    Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £19.99

    21 super fit, highly motivated, British Army mountaineers risk everything in a bid to become the first Britons to conquer Everest via the notoriously difficult West Ridge. Everest - Man Vs Mountain, a...

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  10. Science and the Swastika (2004)

    Subject
    History; Science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 9200 minutes), £16.99

    Series looking at how the Third Reich adapted the tenets of science to its own ends. Narrated by Sebastian Faulks. 07/04: The Good German:

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