这是第一份专门研究高海拔生命科学最新进展的同行评议期刊。该杂志刊登了对肺和心脏病、食欲和体重减轻、肺水肿和脑水肿、高血压、脱水、不孕等疾病影响的最新研究结果。涵盖高海拔生命科学的全部范畴，包括生理学、药理学、比较和进化生物学、人类学、人类和动物生态学、病理学和发病机制。国际山地医学协会的官方期刊。
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.