Dr Keyes, adjoint Professor at the University of Colorado, is a board-certified emergency physician, vice-president of the International Society of Mountain Medicine, and a past president of the Wilderness Medical Society.  Since she was a medical student at Yale University, she has travelled the globe in pursuit of science and understanding the effects of high-altitude hypoxia on the human body. Dr Keyes is an Associate Editor for Annals of Emergency Medicine, the author of international guidelines on high-altitude medicine and has published dozens of original research articles. The mountains are her happy place. She believes in wilderness as medicine and in conservation for the health of the planet.