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@chrisimray      http://www.christopherimray.co.uk

Chris is a vascular/renal transplant surgeon who has a sustained interest in austere environments. He started climbing at school and has continued to travel the world to fulfil this passion. Chris is a member of both the Alpine and Climbers Club and sits on the Mount Everest Screening Committee. Recently, he completed a 30-year odyssey by climbing the Seven Summits. He is a world expert in cold injuries and has run the UK telemedicine frostbite service for the British Mountaineering Council for over a decade.

In 2017, he co-founded the Global Polar and Altitude Metabolic Research Registry with Claire Grogan to help better understand the challenges of extreme environmental travel, and we have published a number of papers on the subject. He was Director of the Coventry NIHR Clinical Research Facility. Chris is a co-author of The Oxford Handbook of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine, and although he has published extensively on altitude medicine, cold injury, vascular and renal transplantation surgery (with 200 peer review publications), he remains an active mountaineer, polar traveller and altitude/cold researcher.

I managed to climb Mount Vinson in Anarctica 4,892m in January 2019 to complete the seven summits. This was the coldest of the peaks with temperatures as low as -37C and winds around 25mph giving a windchill factor in the -55/60C range.

Charity

I am raising money for the Circulation Foundation - the major charity for peripheral vascular disease and supported by the Vascular Society @VSGBI

@CircFoundation           www.circulationfoundation.org.uk

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