Hypoxia; Man at High Altitude. Edited by John Sutton, Norman Jones, and Charles Houston. Thieme-Stratton, New York, 1982. 210 pages. Many illustrations. $35.

Hypoxia; Man at Altitude, like the preceding book, is a collection of papers given at the Second Hypoxia Symposium in Banff in 1981 and also contains many papers directly related to high-altitude mountaineering. Unlike the others, discussion follows each paper, which gives additional insight. Especially interesting are the case reports, recounted by victims of high-altitude edema, sickle cell crisis, thrombo-embolism and in the words of non-medical people these stories are impressive. Since the Symposium was planned to be comprehensive, the coverage is broader and a reader will get a more complete, less fragmented picture of what hypoxia does or can do to the human body and how to ward off the effects. This book is probably of more interest to the non-doctor climber than most of the others reviewed here.