Dehydration's the obvious problem for most walkers in summer, butdrinking too much water, in an attempt to compensate, can actuallykill you according to a report on the deaths of three US militaryrecruits.In each case the servicemen drank more water than they needed withthe resul...

were that the drug decreases the risk ofdeveloping HAPE by 50 per-cent in susceptible subjects.HAPE is a dangerous consequence of insufficient acclimatisation,where the lungs fill with fluid and climbers literally begin todrown. It has killed numerous