Any worker that takes a job in high altitude astronomy needs to be prepared to lose their mental and physical health, and possibly to develop gender issues.

I suspect that if the long term summit workers of the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) were studied, they would find elevated levels of mental and physical illness, gender dysphoria, disease and premature death that comes from keeping them in an abnormal state of mal-acclimatization.

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 of mental and physical illnesses.

My interest in astronomy took me to the premier astronomical observatories in the world before I developed occupational diseases and became disabled at age 45 with mental and physical illnesses.

By the end of my thirties I was a mental and physical wreck!

You do not realize how much incompetence is in the workplace until you become a supervisor.

I was fortunate when I developed mental illness that it had gone mainstream.

Professional astronomy turned me into a broken man.

Whenever I see a homeless person on the street, I think ‘That could be me in a few years time’.