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Physiological constraints confine our bodies to significantly less than one-fifth of the earth's surface. Beyond that small percentage lie the extremes. What happens whenever we go to them? Dr. Kenneth Kamler has spent years observing just what happens. A vice chief executive of the famous Explorers Golf club, he has climbed, dived, sledded, floated, and trekked through some of the most treacherous and remote control regions on earth. A consultant for NASA, Yale College or university, and the Country wide Geographic Population, he has explored undersea caves, crossed the iced Antarctic wastelands, and stitched a boy's hands back jointly while kneeling in knee-deep Amazonian mud. He was really the only doctor on Everest during the tragic expedition documented in Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air and helped treat its survivors. Kamler has committed his life to investigating how our bodies respond to "environmental insults" - a nice way of stating things that can wipe out us - and watched although some succumbed to them and others, sometimes miraculously, overcome them. Words like "extreme" and "survival" have lost some of their value from overuse and marketing hype. By showing us what goes on when life itself is at stake, and the body's capacities put to their greatest test, this reserve reminds us what they truly signify.
