Adaptation Quote by Steven Magee

“At the age of 45, most days in Tucson were spent feeling like I was on the summit of Mauna Kea, as I was…

— Steven Magee

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

— Steven Magee

“When I worked in high altitude astronomy, the worst sickness that I experienced was not at the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of…

— Steven Magee

“If you want to make astronomers uncomfortable, you ask to see the health study of all very high altitude workers at the Mauna Kea…

— Steven Magee

“Not descending to sea level after developing high altitude sickness is a mistake that may come to haunt you a decade later.”

— Steven Magee

“When I saw how many people were objecting to the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope atop Mauna Kea, I realized that there needed…

— Steven Magee

“Altitude sickness symptoms increase the longer time is spent above the Altitude Hypersensitivity trigger threshold.”

— Steven Magee

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

— Steven Magee

“Had I known the risks associated with oxygen administration, I would have refused to work atop the biologically hazardous Mauna Kea summit.”

— Steven Magee

“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

“High altitude astronomy is a strange world of oxygen starvation, sleep deprivation and radiation sickness.”

— Steven Magee

When I went to Everest, I underestimated things. I just didn't know what altitude could do. Or the cold - I especially didn't appreciate…

— Jon Krakauer