You may have heard a flight attendant talk about the safety procedures to follow if the cabin loses pressure, but what does ...

Long-term exposure to very high altitude significantly reduces cardiopulmonary function in healthy adults from lowland ...

Dehradun: The Uttarakhand health department has credited its intensive medical screening and timely interventions with saving ...

A new genomic study reveals how human populations adapted, survived, and diversified in the Himalayas, one of the most ...

Welcome back to the Daily Aviation for a feature on the compulsory Altitude Chamber Training to be undertaken by US Military airmen to ensure that they are able to identify the symptoms of Hypoxia ...

The conditions outside a cruising airliner are those of intense cold, thin air, and potentially lethal atmospheric conditions ...

As an aircraft begins to descend uncontrollably, the brain triggers its most basic survival instincts, releasing a surge of ...

Figure 2. Mechanism of high-altitude illnesses caused by metabolite changes in the plateau environment. Under plateau hypoxia, accumulated metabolites regulate the function of target proteins through ...

High-altitude polycythemia (HAPC) is a common and widespread chronic mountain sickness characterized by excessive erythrocytosis [2]. Hypobaric hypoxia (HH) is the main cause of erythrocytosis, which ...

In 2019, while in Peru as a camp counselor, Tyler Andrews set his first Fastest Known Time (FKT) on the 37.9-mile Salkantay ...