Over the past month the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences have been working with the Royal School of Military Engineering helping them prepare for their trip to the Himalayas. The Royal School of Military Engineering are sending 12 members to the Himalayas at the end of March, as leg two of a six month army wide expedition. The group of all ages will be trekking/climbing from Makalu to Lukla via Everest base camp, taking in 3 x 6000m peaks to a maximum height of 6518m. This will take roughly 30 days. The group have been working with physiologists from SSES and training in the altitude chamber twice a week for the past 3 weeks. This has allowed the group to experience exercising at a simulated altitude close to that which they will experience during the expedition.
Preparing Military Engineers for the Himalayas
