A team of researchers traveled to the highest city in the world

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They're about to go the world's highest city, at 5,300 meters above sea level, to better understand the limits of human body adaptation to the lack of oxygen.  This is Expédition 5300 in La Rinconada, Peru.

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00:00We finally discover this incredible place, really incredible, the access itself is already

00:24chaotic.

00:25Climbing the streets, it's ... it makes you breathe hard.

00:55The heart beats fast, the ventilation, but despite everything, we see the people who live,

01:00the children who play in the street.

01:24I think it is necessary to know a little more about the physiopathology of mountain chronic

01:51therapy, to better understand and to better look for a type of treatment for diseases

01:58because it is the main pathology here at altitude.

02:21I think it is necessary to know a little more about the physiopathology of mountain chronic

02:48therapy, to better understand and to better look for a type of treatment for diseases

02:55because it is the main pathology here at altitude.

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