Results
Nineteen participants climbed from 210m (H1) to 4420m (H2) to stay for six months. Three of them descended to 3500m (H3), stayed for two months to further ascend to 5800m (H4) for four months. Fecal samples collected at different time points were analyzed for WGS (for three subjects who climbed to H4 and compared with 16S rRNA sequencing of subjects (16) from the same cohort who stayed at H1 and H2 heights to illustrate microbial diversity upto strain level and functional analysis at extreme altitudes.
Sharing of Sequence data between four different altitudes