[bdamm]

Yeah, powered by a pump near your chest, with heat pushed out from the center using liquid, and then distributed everywhere it is needed using smaller and smaller tubes that get close to the surface of the skin before returning. And why not use this same liquid to provide extra oxygen. Love it!

The last time I was on the periphery of mountaineering, performance enhancing drugs were commonplace. A breakthrough in performance enhancing drugs should yield new results in mountaineering.

[devnullbrain]

What kind of PEDs?

[burkaman]

Here's a 2001 article with some examples: https://publications.americanalpineclub.org/articles/1220011.... I don't personally know any serious alpine climbers so I have no idea how common this stuff is.

[fullspectrumdev]

Amphetamines are pretty common…