IN Snow Society many dangerous consequences of accident and neglect can be seen. at high altitudes and at very low temperatures. Malnutrition and dehydration are just two small details along with many harmful consequences that can cost even the most prepared people their lives. climbers. In the case of the film, these were not mountain climbers, but rugby players along with their family and friends. This further complicates the situation, which could even lead to them going crazy. There would be nothing strange in this, since this phenomenon is known as high altitude psychosis and many cases have already been documented in this regard.
One of the people who best described these hallucinations Slovenian mountaineer and doctor. Iztok Thomasin, both for his status as a doctor and for the fact that he himself suffered from it. He says that when he climbed to the top of the mountain as part of a climbing team, he felt ill. He then saw several guides advising him to freely descend to safety. 2000 meters below. He was determined to jump because it was the only way to feel better. Fortunately, he realized in time that these people were just in your imagination. Otherwise, he would have jumped and probably would have died on impact.
Thomasin was never able to accurately describe what happened to him. He and others initially suspected that high altitude psychosis might be related to altitude sickness. Evil, which, by the way, is the director Snow Society before filming the film. However, a study was published in 2017 showing that they are, in fact, independent phenomena. What happens then? At the moment it remains a mystery.
High altitude psychosis, far beyond Snow Society
As we have already seen, high altitude psychosis is not a fictional phenomenon that could be used to add more emotion to the story behind it. Snow Society. This is a very real phenomenon.
Iztok Tomazin is not the only climber to share his experience. Happening Fernando Garridowhich took place in 1986 62 days at the top of Aconcaguaat an altitude of almost 7000 meters.
In his travel diary, he says that on the 54th day, he woke up and saw his brother next to his tent. He ran to call him to come in with him, but then he realized that he was dead. A tough scene that really it was only in his head. There was no one with him. In fact, it is one of the parameters that typically increases the likelihood of developing high altitude psychosis: loneliness.
Any climber can experience this, even if they are in a group, as in Snow Society. But more cases were reported in people who climbed alone. And this doesn’t seem to be related to previous mental illness, as a significant proportion of climbers who experience this disease had no previous history of mental health problems. The good news is that high altitude psychosis usually disappears once the victim descends and leaves no consequences. Therefore, the biggest risk is that they will make some dangerous movement as a result of hallucinations, as Thomasin was planning to do. Otherwise there is no particular risk.
What is this for?
The causes of high altitude psychosis currently remain unclear. It was initially thought that this might be due to cerebral edema that some people suffer from altitude sickness, caused by a lack of oxygen at high altitudes. However, in 2017, an international group of scientists, which included Thomasin himself, checked by analyzing 83 reports of these psychotic breaks, which are not directly related to any disease. That is, in some cases they were accompanied by cerebral edema, but in others not. In fact, most patients did not have any disease or factor that recurred.
Thus, it turns out that high altitude psychosis is actually independent disorder. So it needs to be studied in more depth, and that’s what scientists have been doing all these years. His origins were not known when the true heroes Snow Society They landed in the Andes, and now they are not there. But some steps in this direction have been taken.
Source: Hiper Textual
