Program study of mountaineering as outdoor education - The example of safety management that uses physiological index -

The purpose of this study was to practice the effects of outdoor education in college students who participated in a 4-days nature recreational trekking course. Mountaineering or trekking mountain contains very important activities for understanding the nature. Understanding of the nature in the world can draw the interest in environmental disruption. The mountaineering or trekking activities include of outdoor education programs can help improving the quality of environment and life style by students. It is important to consider carefully our spiritual health,social.health ,and even wellness life style through the mountaineering or trekking activites proguram. The intensity of heart rates in physical exercise is the important index to understand safety mountaineering or trekking activities program. And oxygen saturation is the important index of mountain sickness as hypoxia. In this program we recognize the safety management that uses physiological index heart rates and oxygen saturation for physical stress. The educational effect of outdoor activity in the physical education of liberal arts is to understand natural environment,and also to understand the safe range of physical activity. Although muscular fatigue was observed,the subjective symptoms of acute mountain sickness were not observed. It is concluded that measurements of physiological parameters during mountain climbing is useful for risk management in outdoor education