FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

WORLD COURIER SPONSORS RESEARCH EXPEDITION IN BOLIVIA

STAMFORD, Connecticut, June 30, 2001--As one of the major sponsors of Apex-Bolivia 2001, a medical research expedition that took place in Chacaltaya, Bolivia this March, World Courier may have helped to unlock some of the secrets of Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS).

Under highly demanding conditions, World Courier transported four separate temperature-sensitive shipments containing frozen blood samples over a two-week period from the expedition's high-altitude laboratory at Chacaltaya, a precarious mountain setting some 5,200 meters above sea level, to Edinburgh where they could be analyzed.

"We selected World Courier from several large courier companies that had kindly offered to transport our samples," says Kenneth Baillie, a fourth-year University of Edinburgh medical student and key organizer and leader of the Apex expedition. "Their staff arranged all of the paperwork to get our samples through customs and dealt with the logistics of transporting the samples from our wilderness laboratory. We had put a great deal of work and money into obtaining high altitude samples and, because of their reputation for care and reliability, World Courier was the only company we were prepared to trust with this task."

Apex-Bolivia 2001 was a charitable effort organized by six fourth-year medical students from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland who, during their 10-day stay at the Chacaltaya mountain laboratory near La Paz, conducted six separate experiments concerning the impact of altitude on human physiology and the debilitating effects of AMS. The expedition concluded with the successful ascent of Sajama, Bolivia's highest peak at 6,520m (21,464 feet), by seven of the Apex team members.

"We hope that the benefits of our research will stretch beyond AMS and other high altitude diseases," says Mr. Baillie. "There are many sea-level medical conditions such as asthma and chronic bronchitis which are complicated by a lack of oxygen. By advancing our understanding of the normal response to a lack of oxygen, this research may stimulate the development of new treatments for these conditions."

"We welcomed the opportunity to assist these young scientists with their research," says Wayne B. Heyland, President and Chief Executive Officer of World Courier Group. "Since appropriate facilities were unavailable locally, we were proud to have been able to provide a vital component of the support needed to realize the successful conclusion of the study."
More details on the Apex-Bolivia 2001 expedition can be found at www.apex-altitude.com/group.htm

Incorporated in 1969, World Courier has set the benchmark for worldwide time-sensitive transportation. It remains the only specialist courier company with its own global network dedicated to treating every shipment on an individual, priority basis. Today, World Courier is the acknowledged leader in delivering customized solutions and value-added services in growth markets such as the bio-medical, automotive and high-tech industries. Headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, World Courier maintains a comprehensive international network of 114 wholly-owned offices operating in 42 countries around the globe.

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Contacts

John Butler
Managing Director
World Courier (U.K.) Ltd.
79/80 Blackfriars Road
London SE1 8HA
England

Telephone: 44/207/928-7256
Fax: 44/207/928-7105
E-mail: jbutler@worldcourier.co.uk
Web site: www.worldcourier.com

Kenneth Baillie
Leader
Apex-Bolivia 2001
Faculty of Medicine Office
University of Edinburgh
Teviot Place
Edinburgh EH8 9AG
Scotland

Telephone: 44/131/650-3192
Web site: www.apex-altitude.com/group.htm