unacclimatized

Military models indicate at least 25% of unacclimatized troops parachuting into a battlefield at 10,000 feet—and more than 80% of troops fighting at 13,200 feet—will get altitude sickness.

Pentagon's Uphill Battle Stephanie Simon 2011

Mountain Malaise Projections for proportion of unacclimatized troops who will get sick at high altitudes.

Pentagon's Uphill Battle Stephanie Simon 2011

But he has exposed himself to the inevitable chill after midnight, he is unacclimatized, and both places are exceptionally deadly — to say nothing of the liquor.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

KREIDER: Mr. Bechler's death is tragic, but it's an example of how not to train athletes who are unacclimatized, out of shape, pushed to the point where they collapse during training.

CNN Transcript Feb 23, 2003 2003

Officers and men were all raw, unseasoned, and unacclimatized.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

It was largely composed of quite young, unacclimatized soldiers, peculiarly susceptible to fever -- that terrible scourge which fills the hospitals of our Punjab stations in the autumn of each year.

Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

It is a fetish of belief in hot countries that every unacclimatized white man must, sooner or later, succumb to that sacred custom, the siesta.

Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919

Page 91 are heavy; the days hot and the nights chill, and the unacclimatized family in a few days are attacked with ague.

Southern Prose and Poetry for Schools 1910

Everywhere the fierce heat of equatorial Africa, accompanied by a wild luxuriance of parasitic life, breed tropical diseases in the unacclimatized whites.

World's War Events $v Volume 3 Beginning with the departure of the first American destroyers for service abroad in April, 1917, and closing with the treaties of peace in 1919. 1902

Romans, their increasing difficulties with respect to provisions, the injurious effect of the summer heats upon their unacclimatized constitutions, would have been irresistible temptations to a prince of any spirit or energy, inducing him to advance as the Romans retired, to hang upon their rear, to cut off their supplies, and to render their retreat difficult, if not disastrous.

The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 6. (of 7): Parthia The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. George Rawlinson 1857