“People thought I was crazy”

After two years of preparation, Lea Dümpelmann travelled alone to Everest Base Camp, where she demonstrated for the first time that an established treatment for severe ...

Drones for mountain rescue

Safeguarding those who save lives

A conversation about the transformation of high-altitude mountaineering, new risks for mountain rescue, and international guidelines for operations at extreme altitudes.

Below the extremes

A research team is investigating the physiological effects of moderate altitudes in a South Tyrolean valley

Sleeping at high altitudes

What may feel miserable subjectively is objectively of sufficient quality

Oxygen above the clouds

A study explored whether providing supplementary oxygen during high-altitude flights could protect passengers, while also assessing its potential risk of brain damage.

Cutting corners but at what cost?

An international research team warns against the use of the anesthetic gas xenon to bypass altitude acclimatization in high-altitude expeditions.

What happens to the human body when an avalanche buries it?

Environmental variables and the Triple H Syndrome

Drone rescue in difficult terrain

Interview with CAI K2-70 expedition climbers

Interview with the CAI K2-70 doctors

Mind the gap

The gender data disparity and why it needs to be reconciled

Wenn sich die Psyche nach einem Bergunfall verändert

Eine Studie zeigt, dass Menschen zum Teil psychische Belastungsstörungen entwickeln, zum Teil aber auch gestärkt aus dem Unfall hervorgehen können

To K2!

A project by Eurac Research is investigating the physiology of eight female mountaineers on their way to climb the second highest mountain on Earth

A month of ice

In the terraXcube's icing research tunnel, drones fly through freezing cold clouds

Can science explain mountaineering?

Studies on human physiology often accompany great mountaineering feats, however the results of these studies are at times, contradicted by reality.

The rescued hand

A man survives for 23 hours under an avalanche and his treatment sets new standards.

Brains in danger?

A lack of oxygen to the brain can cause serious damage, but the threat is difficult to measure. A young researcher is testing new approaches.

'I could never be sure that I would be understood'

Communication difficulties in extreme rescue operations

Unfälle von Bergrettungsmannschaften

Eine Studie analysiert Fälle aus zwanzig Jahren

Drones for science

Remotely piloted aircraft are changing scientific research

First aid from above

Eurac Research and Mountain Rescue South Tyrol test the use of drones for emergency operations in the Bletterbach Gorge

Nichts für Feiglinge

Eingegraben im Schnee für die Forschung

“Data sustainability is the new frontier of research”

Conversations between disciplines: interview with physicist Claudia Notarnicola and emergency physician Giacomo Strapazzon.

Klarer Kopf auch auf 5.000 Metern?

Eine Studie überprüft die Leistung von Hubschrauber-Rettungsteams

'The most direct route is rarely feasible'

Conversations between disciplines: interview with ecologist Ulrike Tappeiner and emergency physician Hermann Brugger.

An emergency headset

Medical device to measure temperature and other vital parameters from the ear recently patented

Houston, we have a (heart) problem

Our researchers tested an automated heart massager to measure its efficacy on space missions

How altitude can impact neurological conditions

Recommendations for climbing at altitude

Nachwuchsforschungspreis Südtirol 2021 geht an den Medizinforscher Simon Rauch

Patente Lösung

Weil es das Gerät, das sie für eine wissenschaftliche Untersuchung brauchten, nicht gab, bauten zwei Forscher es kurzerhand selber. Und eröffneten damit ein neues Forschungsfeld.

Helicopter rescue: shorter resuscitation shifts needed at high altitudes

Hier die Studienergebnisse der Testreihe, die im terraXcube durchgeführt wurde

'Every accident in the mountains is an emergency.'

Hermann Brugger talks about what is probably the most comprehensive standard work on rescue operations in the mountains.

Recommendations for suspension syndrome

After testing 20 climbers, the results are in

Getting inside the heads of avalanche victims

Simulated avalanches enable observation of brain oxygenation under snow

New results from the climate simulator

Acclimatisation at altitude

Covid-19: Ultraschall auf dem Vormarsch

The Lazarus Phenomenon

The science behind the spontaneous return from the dead

There is no link between Covid-19 and high-altitude pulmonary oedema

Research team publishes official statement

"In an emergency situation, it's essential to have guidelines."

Interview with Simon Rauch, co-head of the Covid intensive care unit in Merano and researcher at the Institute of Mountain Emergency Medicine.

"Right now, we're an information hub for health networks."

Interview with Hermann Brugger, head of the Institute of Mountain Emergency Medicine.