When climbing Mount Everest, climbers must utilize oxygen tanks to help them survive the climb to the peak. Relate these behaviors to the mechanisms of O2 transport in the human body and to the physiological interactions to our gaseous environment. Be detailed.

 

As mountainers climb the highest peak like Mount Everest, as altitude rises, the amount of oxygen level in the atmospheric air reduces as trees are not abundant at higher altitudes. Higher altitudes can lead to low saturation level of an individual's blood and this occurs due to low air pressure at high altitudes. Climbers utilize oxygen tanks to help them survive the climb to the peak, they used supplementary oxygen in order to avoid the risk of severe hypoxia (cells and tissues in the body do not get enough oxygen). These activity are same as in the human body, the process of oxygen transfer occurs through both convection and diffusion by diffusing gases from high concentration areas to low concentration areas. With an area where its partial pressure is greater, oxygen travels to an area where its partial pressure is lower. Therefore the reaction between oxygen molecules at high altitudes is further divided when climbing at peak since there is less pressure to move them together. This essentially means that when we inhale, there are fewer oxygen molecules in the same amount of air.