You waited what felt like a lifetime for this hunt. Don't let altitude sickness cut it short. If you want to learn how to prevent altitude sickness, you need to understand how it can occur. And few ...

If planning to explore Colorado's caves or volcanic formations, build in extra acclimatization time before strenuous activities. Alcohol consumption should be avoided for the first 48 hours at high ...

During a hiking trip, a friend relayed a piece of advice she’d received: To prevent altitude sickness, take an antacid. Now, when she and her husband head to the mountains, they chew on Tums. Hmm.

Here’s a question from a coworker: I recently visited Breckenridge, Colorado, which sits 9,600 feet above sea level. The elevation impacted everyone in our party to varying degrees, but a few ...

Altitude sickness—medically termed Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS)—develops when the body has difficulty adapting to the ...

When I had to turn back from a trek in the Andes, I decided to find out what happened. A Q&A with mountaineer and specialist ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER (KDVR) — The University of Colorado ...

Kathmandu is hosting the XII World Congress on Mountain Medicine 21-24 November, and the location is indeed appropriate considering that it was in the Nepal Himalaya that modern mountain medicine made ...

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 ...

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 ...