So, here's how to measure elevation with your iPhone. You can use the compass app to determine direction, altitude, and ...

On this occasion, Bolivia had a staggering 32 shots, with 7 targeted toward the goal. In contrast, Uruguay—a team considerably higher in the FIFA rankings at 11th—failed to register a single shot on ...

Spanish colonizers established a mining town named Potosí in what is now Bolivia. It was located more than […] ...

In people not adapted to life at altitude, the sparse oxygen can impair fetal growth, causing issues that can last a lifetime ...

This condition, which often occurs during medical events such as heart failure, can also cause acute altitude sickness; ...

New data identifies two key risk factors for high-altitude pulmonary edema, a leading cause of death on the mountain.

Thunderstorms are capable of growing higher than the cruising altitude of airplanes, and twice the height of Mt. Everest.

Wisconsin, the East Region's No. 3 seed, is in Denver, Colorado, for the tournament's first weekend. After a brief 48-hour ...

Wout van Aert has descended from Mount Teide, hoping that three weeks of intense altitude training will give him an advantage ...

Standard guidelines on altitude illness from the Wilderness Medical Society (which I wrote about in detail here) suggest increasing your sleeping elevation by no more than 1,500 feet per night ...