soroche

Altitude sickness, also known as acute mountain sickness (AMS), altitude illness, hypobaropathy, or soroche, is a pathological effect of high altitude on humans, caused by acute exposure to low partial pressure of oxygen at high altitude.

What is the most dangerous game to hunt? 2010

Altitude sickness, also known as acute mountain sickness (AMS), altitude illness, hypobaropathy, or soroche, is a pathological effect of high altitude on humans, caused by acute exposure to low partial pressure of oxygen at high altitude.

What is the most dangerous game to hunt? 2010

It may have been partly the early stage of soroche, or mountain sickness.

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 2007

All this is from hearsay. 8 I am not under favorable circumstances, either for mind or body, and at present I feel a singular lassitude and difficulty in taking exercise, but this is said to be the milder form of the affliction known on higher altitudes as soroche, or “mountain sickness,” and is only temporary.

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 2007

The soroche of the mountains was agreeable compared to that.

Loaded Dice Swain, James 2004

Those traveling at the back of the train fight off the headache and nausea of soroche by chewing coca, the standard remedy for altitude sickness in the Andes.

One River Wade Davis 1996

Those traveling at the back of the train fight off the headache and nausea of soroche by chewing coca, the standard remedy for altitude sickness in the Andes.

One River Wade Davis 1996

And, added to this was the discomfort, amounting at times to positive pain, caused by the soroche.

Under the Andes Rex Stout 1930

The soroche of the mountains was agreeable compared to that.

Under the Andes Rex Stout 1930

The soroche of the mountains was agreeable compared to that.

Under the Andes 1914