They have remained at a high altitude ever since, notwithstanding a recent dip in the figures.
He worries that if you ban the low oxygen or hypoxic tents, some may wonder why not ban those athletes who actually live at a high altitude and then train down below?
In contrast to the Predator, which typically flies at an altitude of 15, 000 feet, the Global Hawk is a high-altitude aircraft capable of flying at 65, 000 feet, beyond the reach of any ground-based weapon.
According to Jones, however, creating the perfect gourmet airline meal requires a scientific awareness of how the human body operates at high altitude, as well as a keen culinary knowledge.
The Predator, however, may be supplanted in any Gulf war by the Global Hawk, which can loiter for more than 24 hours at high altitude over a battlefield.
With a single individual time-trial and fewer finishes at high altitude, the 2005 Tour could be a little less demanding than in recent years and give the likes of Jan Ullrich and Joseba Beloki more recovery time.
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Produced from wild agaves harvested at high altitude, it is a seductively dislocating, subtly knit but extreme stream of sensory information.
Mallory, a 37-year-old schoolmaster at Charterhouse, had already proven himself at climbing at high altitude.
Stray-Gundersen worked for the Norwegian Olympic Committee from 1997-2002, sealing bedrooms of the country's top Nordic athletes and adjusting the oxygen and nitrogen content of the air, so they could sleep in a simulated high altitude environment (he was the scientist who developed the concept of living at high altitude to increase hemoglobin levels).
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