You can climb too high for your own good. Linger too long…

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

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

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

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

— Steven Magee

“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

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're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.

— Edmund Hillary

If we climb this high I swear we'll never die.

— Anonymous

“Can you climb high enough to get above the clouds, look down on the rain from a place in the sun?”

— Ally Condie

Not to climb the high places lonely, but to climb there all together, to rise en masse! This is the way!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The bottom line is there is large uncertainty because nobody has a very good handle on aerodynamics at those altitudes and at those speeds.…

— Wayne Hale

“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