{"id":2302,"date":"2013-05-05T14:52:19","date_gmt":"2013-05-05T14:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funandeducational.com\/?p=2302"},"modified":"2013-07-27T20:55:55","modified_gmt":"2013-07-27T20:55:55","slug":"how-high-is-the-death-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bng.als.mybluehost.me\/funandeducational\/how-high-is-the-death-zone","title":{"rendered":"How High is the Death Zone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 8000 meters, or 26,000 feet,\u00a0mountaineers call this the &#8220;death zone&#8221; at which the amount of oxygen is so low that no humans would be able to stay above this zone for too long. \u00a0Because it is less than 356 millibars of\u00a0atmospheric\u00a0pressure there, the human body is not able to acclimate to it and get enough oxygen saturation in the hemoglobin of the blood.<\/p>\n<p>For\u00a0comparison, Mount Everest base camp is around 17,000 feet. \u00a0There are two Everest base camps. \u00a0And the summit of Everest is at 29,000 feet &#8212; above the death zone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 8000 meters, or 26,000 feet,\u00a0mountaineers call this the &#8220;death zone&#8221; at which the amount of oxygen is so low that no humans would be able to stay above this zone for too long. \u00a0Because it is less than 356 millibars of\u00a0atmospheric\u00a0pressure there, the human body is not able to acclimate to it and get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bng.als.mybluehost.me\/funandeducational\/how-high-is-the-death-zone\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How High is the Death Zone?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-2302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","tag-tidbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bng.als.mybluehost.me\/funandeducational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bng.als.mybluehost.me\/funandeducational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bng.als.mybluehost.me\/funandeducational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bng.als.mybluehost.me\/funandeducational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bng.als.mybluehost.me\/funandeducational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bng.als.mybluehost.me\/funandeducational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2367,"href":"https:\/\/bng.als.mybluehost.me\/funandeducational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions\/2367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bng.als.mybluehost.me\/funandeducational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bng.als.mybluehost.me\/funandeducational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bng.als.mybluehost.me\/funandeducational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}