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...altitude does not bother the local Indians, who have long since adapted themselves to Andean life. They thrive and raise families in altitudes up to 17,000 feet, which is more than a mile above the altitude at which most U.S. Army airmen are required to use oxygen. Peruvian pilots of Indian blood fly their airplanes as high as 24,000 feet without extra oxygen...
...Andean Man, a stocky individual with a broad chest and purplish-ruddy complexion, is the special interest of Dr. Carlos Monge, founder of Peru's National Institute of Andean Biology. Dr. Monge regards him as a distinct climatological variety of the human race. The institute was founded (in 1930) to study the Andean Indian and thus to find ways of making the mountains livable for newcomers, both human and animal. At first, Dr. Monge had almost no money or trained help and made little progress. (Once, when he sent rabbits to Huancayo for observation, the observer ate them...
When the institute got help and money, it studied Andean Man in the flesh. The highland Indians, Dr. Monge found, get their resistance to altitude from definite physical differences. Their lungs are bigger than normal, with more blood vessels in them. Their blood is in greater volume and contains more oxygen per unit. Their hearts can do 12% more work than the hearts of sea-level men. Their nerve cells are less sensitive to anoxia (oxygen starvation...
...Monge will soon be joined by Dr. Harry G. Armstrong of the School of Aviation Medicine at Randolph Field, Tex., a leading U.S. authority on high-altitude effects. He ought to learn much, Dr. Monge thinks, by studying Andean Man, a fellow already adapted to altitudes almost as high as many an airplane...
...Plaza this week that Simon Patino quietly died at 86. He will be buried-for the time being-in Buenos Aires. Later he may be carried to the homeland he had not seen for 23 years, to the blue marble mausoleum built for him on the harsh Andean uplands...