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Altitude sickness, or “acute mountain sickness”, is a condition caused as a result of the effect of atmospheric changes on the human body when ascending to a very high altitude. The condition is potentially fatal, but fatalities are easily avoidable...

Pressure cooking is only a few hundred years old, and it only really became popular for home use in the last century. When I was a child, using first-generation pressure cookers was still considered a bit dangerous. They didn’t have all the built-in...

Tips to improve running performance at high elevations. One of the toughest challenges runners can face is completing all of their training at their low-elevation residences, and then traveling to compete in a race at high altitude (above 5,000 feet...

[Editor's Note: People don't usually win the world's most competitive races by happenstance, and that was certainly not Pam Smith's case when she bested the rest of the women (and, let's be honest, most of the men) at the Western States 100. In this...

  Altitude illness – Also known as hypobaropathy or acute mountain sickness, is a medical condition that is caused by exposure to low pressure of oxygen at high altitude. Moving to a higher altitude rapidly doesn’t allow the body enough...