Humans in Extremes Podcast - Matt Wilkes by University of Portsmouth published on 2020-03-11T09:31:06Z In this podcast, Dr Heather Massey, one of our lecturers in Sport and Exercise Physiology, hosts a series of interviews with individuals who live, work and play in Extreme Environments. She speaks to them to find out more about what they do and how the environment affects them. Dealing with very sick people either half way up Everest or in intensive care beds in the UK is all in a days work for our latest guest. In this episode, Heather interviews Dr Matt Wilkes, an anaesthetists who works as an altitude medic, as well as being a paragliding pilot, and a PhD student working on improving the safety of all modes of ‘free flight’ through his Free Flight Physiology project. Their conversation explores wilderness medicine and the effect of altitude both on land and in the air.