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First manned terraXcube ascent to 5,000 metres

September 13, 2019

On Friday 6 September 2019, a team of four Eurac researchers attempted the first simulated ascent to 5,000 metres in terraXcube’s largest climate chamber, the Large Cube. A medical support crew monitored the subjects’ health while the chamber’s atmosphere gradually adapted to the rising altitude. The health data stemmed from…

“We talk about what we do not know, because that is the only way we can advance”

April 4, 2019

Eurac Research has invited leading international experts in altitude medicine and emergency medicine to a one-day gathering in Bolzano on 5 April to explore research opportunities in the extreme climate simulator the terraXcube At 150 metres altitude under the summit of Mount Everest, three intensive care doctors take their own…

terraXcube Meets Medical Research – Scientific Opening – 5 April 2019

March 18, 2019

Innovation in mountain medicine research – from simulation to real-life application. Burning questions and new possibilities On 5 April 2019 Eurac Research will, alongside the ICAR MEDCOM meeting, officially open the newest of their research facilities to the scientific community, the terraXcube. Our intention is to focus on pertinent methodological…