Ski Town Suicide
To understand why our recent story on suicide in ski towns resonated so profoundly within mountain communities, we examined the 80...
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Is Altitude Causing Suicide in the West?
The West’s mountain towns, from Jackson to Taos, Silverton to Park City, Truckee to Ketchum, tend to float to the top of what I’ll call...
Positive Association between Altitude and Suicide in 2584 U.S. Counties
Abstract Brenner, Barry, David Cheng, Sunday Clark, and Carlos A. Camargo, Jr. Positive association between altitude and suicide in 2584...
The curious relationship between altitude and suicide
Suicide is one of the top 10 causes of death in the U.S. In the next 20 years, it's expected to cause more than 2 million deaths per year...
Stop the progression already
We can't normalize bigger, faster, farther anymore It’s time to call bullshit on progression. Too many of us are beholden to social-media...
There's a Suicide Epidemic in Utah — And One Neuroscientist Thinks He Knows Why
Living in Utah means packed powder in April, canyoneering in the clouds, snow-capped vistas so vivid they look Photoshopped — and the...
Suicide on the mountain
SUICIDE ON THE MOUNTAIN Tusker Trail Mountains Category Dark Side of the Mountain With their piercing light and closeness to the gods,...
The curious relationship between altitude and suicide: New map reveals people in these high-up count
Suicide is one of the top 10 causes of death in the US. In the next 20 years, it's expected to cause more than two million deaths per...
Thin Air Might Increase Depression in Mountain States
The eight intermountain states of the American West, sometimes called the Suicide Belt, have high elevations and the associated thin air....
Study: High Altitudes Linked to Suicide
There are many known risk factors associated with suicide: those who take their own lives are statistically more likely to be white,...
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