<p>Jeremy Windsor is a consultant in anaesthetics and critical care at Chesterfield Royal Hospital. He has been climbing and mountaineering for more than twenty years. In 2007 he climbed Mt Everest as part of the Caudwell Xtreme Medical Research Expedition. He has completed an MD in high altitude medicine and written more than a hundred abstracts, book chapters and research papers on the subject. </p><p>He is a co-founder of the Hathersage Mountain Medicine Festival and in 2018 launched the Anaesthetics, Critical Care and Mountain Medicine Fellowship at Chesterfield Royal Hospital. His blog can be found at <a href=\"https://deathzone.7thwave.io/\" target=\"_blank\">deathzone.io</a> The views expressed here are his own.</p>
