In reply to Tom, UKC News Editor: Followed by another everest programme at 9pm
Everest ER
Sunday, 23 Sep 2007
9:00pm - 10:00pm (1 Hour )
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BBC4
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Life in the mountain's base camp clinic. Set up by Dr Luanne Freer in 2003, the facilities allow doctors to spend 10 weeks every spring treating climbers who have been injured or become unwell in the thin atmosphere. In the village of Pherice, 1,000 metres below the base camp, British doctor Alice Murray offers a similar service, where she also helps yak herders and lodge owners with health care