這是第一份專門研究高海拔生命科學最新進展的同行評議期刊。該雜志刊登了對肺和心臟病、食欲和體重減輕、肺水腫和腦水腫、高血壓、脫水、不孕等疾病影響的最新研究結果。涵蓋高海拔生命科學的全部范疇，包括生理學、藥理學、比較和進化生物學、人類學、人類和動物生態學、病理學和發病機制。國際山地醫學協會的官方期刊。

The first peer-reviewed journal dedicated exclusively to the latest advances in high altitude life sciences. The journal features the latest findings on the effects on lung and heart disease, appetite and weight loss, pulmonary and cerebral edema, hypertension, dehydration, infertility and other diseases. Covers the full spectrum of high altitude life sciences, including physiology, pharmacology, comparative and evolutionary biology, anthropology, human and animal ecology, pathology and pathogenesis. The Official Journal of the International Society for Mountain Medicine.