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Documentary series. At the foot of Mount Everest, a climber comes into the basecamp clinic at death's door. Can the doctors save his life and fly him out?
At the foot of Mount Everest, a climber comes into the basecamp clinic at death's door. Can the doctors save his life and fly him out?
As the Everest summit season gets underway, climbers are exposed to a lethal range of high-altitude illnesses, trauma and frostbite, and the world's highest clinic gets busier and busier.
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Thu 18 Jun 200900:55
BBC One Northern Ireland