death zone
death zone · death zones
зона смерті
зона смерти
Todeszone
An area of land at sufficiently high altitudes in which there is not enough oxygen to…An area of land at sufficiently high altitudes in which there is not enough oxygen to sustain human life.
» Ziri should stay in the death zone for more than 10 hours.
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1 sensesAn area of land at sufficiently high altitudes in which there is not enough oxygen to sustain human life.
Todeszone
зо́на сме́ртиzóna smérti
зо́на сме́ртіzóna smérti
Examples
2 sentencesZiri should stay in the death zone for more than 10 hours.
Ziri entered the death zone of Everest.
Translations
6 languagesУкраїнська
By meaning 1
(climbing) an area of land at sufficiently high altitudes in which there is not enough oxygen to sustain human life:
Русский
By meaning 1
(climbing) an area of land at sufficiently high altitudes in which there is not enough oxygen to sustain human life:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
(climbing) an area of land at sufficiently high altitudes in which there is not enough oxygen to sustain human life:
Origin
Coined by Swiss physician and alpinist Edouard Wyss-Dunant in 1953 as lethal zone.Coined by Swiss physician and alpinist Edouard Wyss-Dunant in 1953 as lethal zone.
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