Climbing—and for an intrepid few, summiting—Mount Everest has an iconic place in the human imagination. But each year, a much larger number of people set a more modest but still lofty goal: hiking up to Everest Base Camp. “It’s at 17,500 feet, so just getting to Base Camp is like climbing a mountain anywhere else in the world,” says emergency medicine specialist Dr. Carlo Canepa MD ’12. “A large portion of people don’t make it all the way up.”
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