The Doctor on Horseback

Wu Tianyi, an 86-year-old medical expert and Communist Party of China (CPC) member, has lived and worked on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau for over half a century. The plateau, the highest in the world known as the third pole of the world, covers the entire Tibet Autonomous Region and parts of other surrounding administrative areas. Wu, the founding father of China's altitude sickness medication, has dedicated his professional life to the research on this particular type of sickness.