When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get…

“The only known way for a sea level adapted human to avoid lifelong high altitude induced disease is to not venture to high altitudes.”

— Steven Magee

You can climb too high for your own good. Linger too long at high altitudes and your hearing dulls and your eyesight dims.

— Max Lucado

Mountaineers have often observed a lack of clarity in their mental state at high altitudes; it is difficult for the stupid mind to observe…

— George Leigh Mallory

I simply like the monumentality of the subjects - the opportunity for metaphor and the varied light that comes with high altitudes.

— Robert Genn

“How hazardous are high powered industrial sodium LASER exposures to night shift summit staff working at very high altitudes across their full lifespan?”

— Steven Magee

When you are very successful, you fly at the very high altitudes and up there you long for to be applauded by the Stars…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

That's generally true of people who drop bombs from high altitudes. You don't know what's going on below. You don't see the human consequences…

— Howard Zinn

“Butter tea has been known for centuries to improve health in people exposed to high altitudes.”

— Steven Magee

We have made it impossible for children to fall very far—and in so doing, we have robbed them of the joys of climbing high.

— Megan McArdle

I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther…

— Anonymous

To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.

— Aristophanes

It is proper that noble spirits, equipped with truth and enlightened with the Divine intelligence, should arm themselves against dense ignorance by climbing up…

— Giordano Bruno

“Very high altitude astronomy only works by ignoring established biological science”

— Steven Magee

“Computer simulations confirm this intuition and suggest that injection in the tropics at altitudes a bit over 20 kilometers (65 thousand feet) would be adequate.”

— David Keith

“...Often that which most we fear births the resolve that spurs us on to altitudes we could not have achieved, had we continued walking…

— M.T. Anderson