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Mountains for Active Diabetics is a loose association of outdoor enthusiasts of whom many happen to have diabetes. All are interested in the challenges of managing diabetes in the outdoors, particularly at extremes of altitude, temperature and exertion.
Our philosophy is that it can be done. Diabetics have summitted the world's highest peaks, crossed endless expanses of desert and snow, run ultra-marathons, bicycled all over the world and climbed vast walls of rock and ice...
Boyan & World Diabetes Day 2008
[this just in from Boyan Petrov aka the Bulgarian Spider (I am responsible for this moniker 'cause I like it! no edits from me on his text either) dp]
Big D & the Crestones
BIG D & the Crestones
Italian Group on top of Cima Castore - Monte Rosa group
Only two days ago, on July 27, 2008, Marco Peruffo and Mattia Tanza led a group which included a number of young adults with Type 1 to the top of the Cima Castore (4200 m) in Monte Rosa group.
Check out some photos of this trip AND some great pictures from Marco Peruffo's 2007 Ama Dablam success.
www.adiq.org
Will Cross Summits Lhotse
Just stumbled upon this article from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazzette mentioning that Will Cross reached the summit of Lhotse on May 25, 2008. Yeah, old news but thought I better post it here. I presume he climbed with suppplemental Os, but haven't confirmed.
Happy summer mountains!
dp
Natural protein may provide cure for main causes of blindness
Interesting news on the retinopathy front reported in The Times (UK) yesterday at http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/health/a...
Andy
Sormani at Masters World Championship
A little update on our friend and inspiration Mauro Sormani --
After winning at the Central Alps Italian Regional Championship in
Piani Di Bobbio on February 3, 2008, Mauro qualified a place at the
cross-country ski Masters World Championships (MWC) to be held Feb 28 -
March 6, 2008 in Idaho, USA!!. The races will be held near McCall, ID
roughly at the same latitude as Bozeman, north of Boise. Mauro will be
part of a 31-member Italian delegation, joining the hundreds of
Americans and large numbers of Russians and Norwegians.
Wearing a Continuous Glucose Monitor – some observations
About a month ago, I started wearing a Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM), an ingenious device that constantly displays your current blood glucose levels, updated every 5 minutes round the clock wirelessly from a subcutaneous sensor. This is a fairly new technology but one that I’m convinced – in one form or another – will be standard management practice in the near future.
Your Insulin Pump Proposals: What You Want the Manufacturers to Change
Over at Diabetes Health, they've run a survey to gather views on what needs to be improved in insulin pump design. I don't know whether any readers of this site took part, but I was wondering whether there are any changes that would make life better in the mountains. How about a remote control pad with extra large glove-proof buttons? Any other ideas?
Here's the summary and link to the Diabetes Health article:
