One lesson centers around the process of acclimatization. Humans were not designed to live at altitudes pushing 8,000 meters – the Death Zone. But our bodies can adjust. The process of ...

Continuing to higher altitudes without proper acclimatization can lead to potentially serious, even life-threatening illnesses. The major cause of altitude illnesses is going too high too fast. Given ...

The paper, "Comparing integrative ventilatory and renal acid-base acclimatization in lowlanders and Tibetan highlanders during ascent to 4,300 m," describes findings from an international high ...

Austrian guide Lukas Furtenbach will lead a one-week trip to the top of Everest and back this year. Prior to the ascent, he ...

A team from the Wildlife Acclimatization Center at Hula Lake Park (KKL--JNF) rescued a crane found trapped in a fence in an agricultural area near a kibbutz in the Galilee, the organization ...

James Cook University and a major Saudi Arabian university have kicked off a three-year joint study that could take climate change research into completely new territory. A JCU team from the ARC ...