At 13:18 16 August 2005, Tony Verhulst wrote:
Stewart Kissel wrote:
Also, many of the high-altitude climbers who do not
use oxygen have shown significant brain damage when
cat-scanned.

Interesting! Do you have a reference?

Tony V.

Yep...

http://www.batnet.com/mfwright/everest.html

If you google about on this subject, there is some
interesting stuff. FWIW, I have heard secondhand
and completely unsubstantiated that some of the wave
flyers of the '60's and '70's, when going way high
was more in vogue, are also exhibiting damage.