Doctor Quote by Jennet Conant

“Breathing, it seemed to me, was a proper attribute for the mountains... mountains that quietly functioned as a single thing with a rhythmic inhale-exhale…

— Ellen Meloy

“After the medicine suffused his body, peace came to him like an engulfing wave. His limbs grew light, and slumber wafted its warm breezes…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

“There was no one to whom he could explain that in order to survive he needed to be at altitude, a Himalayan altitude, so…

— Anita Desai

“My heart desires the mountains, like the lungs desire oxygen.”

— Adele Gibbes

“Life and the work on the mountain had left their mark. Everything about him was warped and crooked. His back seemed to be heading…

— Robert Seethaler

“A mountain is the best medicine for a troubled mind. Seldom does man ponder his own insignificance. He thinks he is master of all…

— Finis Mitchell

The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They were his…

— Thomas Wolfe

“During my time in high altitude astronomy, I routinely witnessed workers breathing medical oxygen, industrial carbon dioxide, nitrogen and helium gas as part of…

— Steven Magee

“What was the human world like in the eyes of the mountains? Perhaps just something they saw on a leisurely afternoon. First, a few…

— Liu Cixin

“He must be always on his guard and devote every minute and module of life to the decoding of the undulation of things. The…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“He had learned early on the trick of living separately in a crowd, private in his mind when his body could not be. But…

— Diana Gabaldon

“I spent a decade of my life mal-acclimatizing to high altitude mountains in professional astronomy and now I am disabled with a wide variety…

— Steven Magee