You think that’s air you’re breathing? At 9,000 feet in Summit County, it’s no secret that the air is thinner than at sea level in San Francisco or New York City. Thinner air means your body works ...

Proponents of oxygen bars say they offer many benefits, but there's little scientific evidence to support the claims. After arriving in Colorado, where I was staying at a ranch some 8,000 feet above ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with moderate to severe COPD traveling to high altitude experienced improvements in hypoxemia, ...

My first visit to high altitude didn’t go well. I was at a training camp in the French Alps, and on one of our easy days my ...

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 ...

In the thin air above 3000m, climbers battle fatigue, cold and altitude sickness, but what if the damage outlasts the expedition? A team at the University of Edinburgh has shown that even a brief ...

The combination of alcohol plus cabin pressure at cruising altitude may threaten sleeping plane passengers' heart health, particularly on long haul flights, suggests the first study of its kind, ...

New study from Case Western Reserve University reveals link between oxygen delivery and reproductive success among women living on the high Tibetan Plateau Breathing thin air at extreme altitudes ...