Mt Everest Medical

Dr. Larry Rigsby, practices as an Internal Medicine physician in Montgomery, AL. He is a regional medical director for Eagle Hospital, a medical consultant for Himalaya Inc. and has a great interest in high altitude medicine and physiology. He is a mountaineer and have been on several expeditions to Alaska including Denali and Moose's tooth. He recently climbed Ama Dablam in the Himalaya and will be  on the north or Tibetan side of Everest this spring.

He plans to do a series on mountain medicine to help promote safety in the mountains and keep climbers and trekkers up to speed on the latest medical info available. The first in the series is on Travel Medicine with subsequent articles on Altitude illness, hypothermia , frostbite etc. These will be updated periodically. He is willing to do a short Q&A, submit questions to  

Travel Medicine for Trekkers and Climbers in the Himalayan Region By Larry Rigsby M.D.

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