Based in the Rocky Mountain range of central Colorado in the town of Frisco at 9000’/2743m, our mission is to conduct clinical research on the effects of high altitude on human health, develop treatment and interventions for high-altitude communities, and provide education and resources to healthcare providers and residents living above 2,500 meters to optimize health and prevent altitude-related illness.
Physician and founder Christine Ebert-Santos, MD, MPS leads our collaboration with clinicians and scientists who share a vision of advancing understanding of high-altitude health effects and establishing evidence-based protocols that improve health outcomes for mountain communities worldwide.
Contribute to Our Mission
Our work includes attending conferences across the globe with other altitude experts, including the annual Hypoxia and Wilderness Medicine Society conferences, expeditions at high elevations, analyzing data collected in outdoor and clinic settings at high elevation, publishing our research both in print and online, and making this valuable information available to the public both locally and internationally.
Buy the Book
Surviving & Thriving at Altitude is a compilation of some of the fascinating and valuable articles over a decade of research and collaboration on highaltitudehealth.com: Dr. Chris’s peer-reviewed research, submissions by physician assistants, nurses and student doctors who have spent time in our high altitude clinic, interviews with high altitude athletes and emergency services professionals, information about backcountry excursions and more. We made sure to include information about the body’s various responses to being in a high altitude environment, so it’s a useful resource for visitors to the high country as well as long-term residents and athletes.
Copies will be available at your local bookstores soon, but in the meantime you can purchase the title directly from Amazon. Let us know which articles were most interesting or helpful!
