Best High Altitude Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Toxic Altitude

“But until then, and right now, the sun is bright, the air is cool, my head is clear, there’s a whole day ahead of us, we’re almost to the mountains, it’s a good day to be alive. It’s this thinner air that does it. You always feel like this when you start getting into higher altitudes.”

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Book:Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

“High altitude astronomy is a dinosaur that needs to go extinct.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“It was a mistake to follow my management training in high altitude professional astronomy. I never realized I was disciplining sickened staff that had become forgetful through altitude sickness that included oxygen starvation, adverse environmental exposures, central sleep apnea and mal-acclimatization!”

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Author:Steven Magee

“When I worked in professional high and very high altitude astronomy, I was completely clueless to what the long term biological hazards of the job were!”

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Author:Steven Magee

“Long COVID appears to be very similar to high altitude diseases.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“The workers in professional astronomy were not informed about the extensive biological research that had been performed on high and very high altitude biological exposures.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“After the horrendous way the high altitude Denver International Airport staff treated me on my vacation, it is unlikely I will ever go to Colorado again!”

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Author:Steven Magee

“I had an unfortunate encounter with mean staff at the high altitude Denver International Airport that ruined my vacation and I now avoid Colorado.”

Mean Vacation Unfortunate Staff Ruined Colorado Avoid Encounter High Altitude Denver International Airport

Author:Steven Magee

“I was always eating the subsidized food from the high altitude cafeteria in professional astronomy. It was free, so I would eat it. The food was low quality at every astronomical observatory I worked at.”

Cafeteria Worked High Altitude Professional Astronomy Always Eating Astronomical Observatory Low Quality Eat It It Was Free Subsidized Food

Author:Steven Magee

“Jobs at high altitude are chronic stress jobs for sea level adapted humans with associated detrimental health outcomes.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“There are serious long-term adverse health effects associated with being a high altitude worker.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“I may have been the first altitude sickness researcher in history to have been harassed out of a high altitude international airport by armed and potentially dangerous police officers.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“When I first started working at high altitude in La Palma, I was extremely happy, but as time progressed I developed fatigue, physical health issues and mental illness symptoms.”

Happy Mental Illness Symptoms Fatigue Working Physical Health Issues Developed High Altitude La Palma

Book:Toxic Altitude

Source: Toxic Altitude

“My high altitude injured right hand is recovering. The hand itself is not injured, it is the injured nerve in the arm that is causing muscle wasting in the hand. It seems to be bruised. Injured nerves can take 1-2 years to recover. Given that it has shown an extensive recovery already, I expect it may fully recover in a year or so. The damaged nerve was an occupational hazard of being an altitude researcher!”

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Book:Toxic Altitude

Source: Toxic Altitude

“Astronomical observatories are at high altitude due to the radiation levels from Space being elevated because they are in a partial vacuum, the humidity is low and they are often above the clouds.”

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Book:Toxic Altitude

Source: Toxic Altitude

“The illnesses in high altitude professional astronomy are generally a mixture of long term altitude sickness and workplace toxicity.”

Long Term Sickness Altitude Workplace Toxicity High Altitude Generally Illnesses Professional Astronomy Mixture

Book:Toxic Altitude

Source: Toxic Altitude

“COVID-19 is very similar to high altitude diseases.”

Mountain Altitude Covid 19 Elevation Hypoxia Diseases Similar Altitude Sickness High Altitude Hypoxemia

Author:Steven Magee

“The kidneys are vulnerable to hypoxic damage.”

Vulnerable Covid 19 Kidneys Hypoxia Long Covid Hypoxic High Altitude Kidney Oxygen Starvation Hypoxic Damage

Book:COVID Supplements

Source: COVID Supplements

“The definition of ‘Summit Brain’ is a malfunctioning brain that is at high altitude and/or is hypoxic and/or is radiation exposed and/or has been exposed to Faraday cages and/or has viruses and/or has used medical oxygen and/or has used over the counter drugs and/or has been exposed to industrial pollutants and/or has been exposed to partial vacuum and/or has malnutrition and/or has long term damage from the various exposures.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“I am a hormonally challenged kind of guy.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“As I watched my mental and physical health rapidly decline during a decade of working in high altitude professional astronomy, I became suspicious about the toxicity of the jobs and left the field to protect my long term health.”

Jobs Protect Astronomy Long Term Decline Suspicious Professional Toxicity Watched High Altitude

Author:Steven Magee

“There was no management training in high altitude professional astronomy that covered the long-term health effects that were appearing in their mal-acclimatized staff.”

Long Term Covered Appearing Management Training High Altitude Professional Astronomy Health Effects Mal Acclimatization Adverse Environmental Exposures Mal Acclimatized Staff

Author:Steven Magee

“If you want to know what biological incompetence looks like, just take a look at high altitude professional astronomy.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“I see a lot of commonality between the health issues high altitude workers develop and Long COVID symptoms.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“For many years I have thought long term human survival in a climate changed world will probably occur in high altitude colonies near the equator.”

Long Term Probably High Altitude Occur Colonies Human Survival For Many Years Climate Changed World I Have Thought Near The Equator

Author:Steven Magee

“I develop altitude sickness at just 1,000 feet. At what altitude do you develop it?”

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Author:Steven Magee

“I knew I was disabled when everyday home activities became overwhelming!”

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Author:Steven Magee

“I am aware of at least three people that changed gender during their time in high altitude astronomy.”

Mountain Astronomy Altitude Summit High Altitude Very High Altitude Hypoxia Inducible Factor Changed Gender During Their Time I Am Aware Of

Author:Steven Magee

“High altitude illness and disease research is where radiation health research was during the time of Marie Curie.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“Poor diet combined with high altitude exposures may bring increased risks of illnesses and cancers.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“It seems the 2023 Long COVID research is heading in the direction of my 2022 findings in my high altitude and COVID books. It is causing amino acid deficiencies!”

Books Findings Direction Covid High Altitude Deficiencies Amino Acid Causing Heading Long Covid Research

Author:Steven Magee

“Suicide Islands: The higher the island is, the higher its suicide rate appears to be.”

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Author:Steven Magee