Chinmay Sharma, a 27-year-old man from Uttar Pradesh, died in Leh reportedly due to altitude sickness, which is caused by low levels of oxygen in the air. The man went to the high-altitude area on his ...

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — People living at higher altitudes tend to be healthier, but definitive evidence as to why remains elusive. There is debatable data, and some contradictory studies, as well as the ...

Despite the limited research on the effects of altitude (or hypoxic) training interventions on team-sport performance, players from all around the world engaged in these sports are now using altitude ...

Many people are familiar with altitude sickness and the effect it has on the body, but many people often fail to realize that there is a severe form of altitude sickness that even people living at ...

When I told friends I was going to Tibet last spring, almost everyone asked, “What are you doing to prevent altitude sickness?” Not nearly enough, it turned out, given the headaches, insomnia and ...

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 ...

Altitude sickness occurs when air pressure and oxygen levels are reduced at a higher elevation, as in the mountains. It's ...