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death zone

noun

Etymology

Coined by Swiss physician and alpinist Edouard Wyss-Dunant in 1953 as lethal zone.

Definitions

  1. An area of land at sufficiently high altitudes in which there is not enough oxygen to…

    An area of land at sufficiently high altitudes in which there is not enough oxygen to sustain human life.

    • That makes life even harder in the freezing temperatures of the death zone. High in the mountains the cold affects you quickly. You get goose bumps as your skin tries to trap warm air in the fine hairs that cover your body.

  2. Alternative letter-case form of death zone.

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