SEP-A-7
WITH KAY’S HELP, I HAVE SENT
ALL THE GPS DATA
FOR GIS MAPPING OF THE “ROOF
OF THE WORLD”
From: "Kay Sadighi" <ksadighi@berkshire.rr.com>
To: "Glenn Geelhoed" <msdgwg@gwumc.edu>
Date: 9/4/02 12:04AM
Subject: fw: info on base map
I haven;t got this yet, but will see...
‑‑‑‑‑ Original Message ‑‑‑‑‑
From: "Frank Biasi" <fbiasi@tnc.org>
To: "Kay Sadighi" <ksadighi@berkshire.rr.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2002 1:20 PM
Subject: RE: a non‑tnc but interesting GIS question
> Hi Kay,
> The GTOPO30 DEM data is global and free (1km resolution). That can make a
> good basemap. The ESRIDATA that is included with ArcInfo is also pretty
> good. Don't know about "topo" maps outside the US. They're usually done
> country‑by‑country.
>
> ‑Frank
>
> ‑‑‑‑‑Original Message‑‑‑‑‑
> From: Kay Sadighi [mailto:ksadighi@berkshire.rr.com]
> Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2002 5:24 PM
> To: fbiasi@TNC.ORG
> Subject: a non‑tnc but interesting GIS question
>
>
> HI Frank‑‑I have this friend who travels all over the world doing good
deeds
> (he's a surgeon‑‑interesting story below) and he takes his garmin
everywhere
> logging positions. I asked him when he was going to send me a GIS map of
his
> latest trek and he replied asking when I could do that for him
> (typical)...so if I wanted to get some topos of the areas mentioned below,
> Kashmir, would I be able to do that for FREE?. This doc told me about
> TerraServer which I have used and also MapMart (for my personal fun
> projects) but they are pricey...do you know about any freebies?
> ‑‑‑‑‑ Original Message ‑‑‑‑‑
> From: "Glenn Geelhoed" <msdgwg@gwumc.edu>
> To: <wendyk@nonin.com>
> Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 9:16 AM
> Subject: Fwd: You have photos from PhotoWorks
>
>
> > Now I have a story for you, and a picture to go along with it!
> >
> > I had sent you a few photos of my remote expedition into the Ladakhi
> > Zanskar Range along the disputed border called the "LOC" in Kashmir (The
> > "Line of Control" between Pakistan and India). You should have received
> > a card from a remote outpost called Padum, the first road I encountered
> > in three weeks, so that as a roadhead, I would have the mail carried
> > out!
> >
> > We had gone in with 32 donkeys and two horses to carry my medical kits
> > and camping gear, while I (the only licensed clinician) and a group of
> > medical students were seeing patients from the isolated roadless village
> > areas of this alpine desert, with the kind of stunning backdrop scenery
> > you have seen in the "sampler" attached (and there are a thousand more
> > pictures like them or better still to come!)
> >
> > As we made our clmb on foot, we stopped the first night in a "village"
> > of 35 people called Hanaupata, and saw almost everyone there. The
> > sickest person there, however, turned out to be my own GWU freshman
> > medical student, Shafkat, a Bangladesh‑born American who was foggy and
> > ataxic with loss of judgment and also severe fatigue.
> >
> > We were only at 12,000 feet, and had plans to continue the next day
> > through three passes, more than a mile higher, with Sangayla Pass at
> > 17,960 feet coming up. While checking on the headachy female medical
> > students, I stopped to see Shafkat, and slipped the portable Nonin Pulse
> > Oximeter on him. To be sure it was reading right, I put it on my
> > finger, and measured 97% saturation and a pulse of 76. Shafkat measured
> > 52% O2 saturation and pulse 126. I have not seen people at this
> > desaturation still talking and not in coma.
> >
> > The repeated measurements confirmed his status, and I started Diamox
> > and Lasix and the decisions at this point were easy. Although he wanted
> > to go on (and higher!) I evacuated him at 4:00 AM on a horse with our
> > best guide, Abdul, to carry him down to the nearest road and a bus whcih
> > brought him to Leh hospital where he had a chest X‑Ray and underwent
> > oxygen treatments for the following week.
> >
> > Without a doubt, the Nonin pulse oximeter saved the life of my medical
> > student, who recovered enough to have Abdul, the clever local guide,
> > figure out the revised route we would take and they intercepted us two
> > weeks later by running the route backwards‑‑at a lower elevation, so
> > Shafkat was still able to participate in the final clinics.
> >
> > At first, disappointed, he later realized just how lucky he was to
> > have survived this dangerously low oxygenation, and the pattern of his
> > measurements which I recorded in the referral letter to the Leh hospital
> > where I had just the previous week given their Grand Rounds conferences
> > is now his treasured souvenir.
> >
> > There have been many instances of your pulse oximeter being used in
> > life‑saving situations, which I have reported to you previously in my
> > notes to you, for the patients we have treated. But, this time, the
> > life you saved was one of our own staff participants. The photograph of
> > him in his grave danger with your oximeter recording his nadir is in the
> > attached access I am furnishing, with a later series of photos showing
> > his complete recovery at the end of our trek when he had rejoined us.
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
> > GWG
>
>