Alpine views can be breathtaking, but when shallow breaths lead to headaches, dizziness, and nausea, you might not be able to enjoy the vistas as much as you’d like. Going too high too fast is a ...

This state is higher above sea level than any other in the U.S. Here's how to keep yourself safe from altitude sickness when ...

They call it the “death zone.” It’s a stretch of Mount Everest that’s about 26,000 feet up and is strewn with something like 200 corpses permanently frozen into the landscape —a warning to other ...

Researchers found that brief hypoxia, experienced at altitude or during illness, reprograms bone marrow progenitors, creating ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Brian Strickland, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (THE CONVERSATION) ...

Four Nepalese individuals have died due to high-altitude sickness during treks in Nepal's Himalayan regions. The deceased include porters and trekkers, as well as a foreign national who was airlifted ...

GRAND COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — The Grand County Search and Rescue Crew saved an 80-pound dog that had become extremely sick from altitude sickness near Crater Lake. According to GCSAR, crews received a ...

An ill dog which refused to move was slung in backpack-style harness and carried four and a half miles out of the backcountry Saturday night. Two campers from Oklahoma had brought the animal with them ...

An Indian trekker named Pintu Mukherji died of high-altitude sickness near Nepal's Thorang Pass while trekking the Annapurna ...

If you want to learn how to prevent altitude sickness, you need to understand how it can occur. And few people are as familiar with how it can ruin a hunt as Cody Arnold, who worked as a hunting guide ...