Altitude sickness emerged as a human concern thousands of years ago, and not just out of thin air. Even with years of studying the symptoms and impact on the body, it still affects many people who ...

Acute mountain sickness (AMS) is common at high altitudes and is often associated with headaches. AMS is theorized to be caused by changes in cerebral blood flow, but this phenomenon is still not well ...

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 ...

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 ...