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death zone en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. 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. 2009 03, Ross Piper, Death Zone: Can Humans Survive at 26,000 Feet, Capstone, →ISBN, page 10:

Forms

Relateds

Armstrong line · Kármán line · kill zone · dead zone

Synonyms

lethal zone

Translations (9)

fr zone de la mort ((climbing) an area of land at sufficiently high altitudes in which there is not enough oxygen to sustain human life) · uk зо́на сме́рті ((climbing) an area of land at sufficiently high altitudes in which there is not enough oxygen to sustain human life) · ko 죽음의 구역 ((climbing) an area of land at sufficiently high altitudes in which there is not enough oxygen to sustain human life) · fi kuolemanvyöhyke ((climbing) an area of land at sufficiently high altitudes in which there is not enough oxygen to sustain human life) · ja デスゾーン ((climbing) an area of land at sufficiently high altitudes in which there is not enough oxygen to sustain human life) · ru зо́на сме́рти ((climbing) an area of land at sufficiently high altitudes in which there is not enough oxygen to sustain human life) · es zona de la muerte ((climbing) an area of land at sufficiently high altitudes in which there is not enough oxygen to sustain human life) · de Todeszone ((climbing) an area of land at sufficiently high altitudes in which there is not enough oxygen to sustain human life) · pl strefa śmierci ((climbing) an area of land at sufficiently high altitudes in which there is not enough oxygen to sustain human life)