When I managed the world’s largest telescopes atop Mauna Kea, I never knew that I would end up campaigning for their closure.

I noticed a positive effect when I suspected very high altitude anemia damage may be present and started to treat it with a 65 mg iron supplement daily in 2018.

After working in high altitude astronomy, I was diagnosed with asthma and allergies.

High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD) is a disease of intermittent hypoxia.

Lung testing has shown that I have an above average lung volume which is consistent with a decade of high altitude work.

High altitude astronomy is a very unprofessional profession.

Given that workers compensation is denying high altitude worker claims for occupational disease, it is common sense to never work in the biologically toxic field of astronomical observatories atop remote mountain summits.

Mauna Kea summit workers are kept in a state of mal-acclimatization, as they are never fully acclimatized to near sea level or to the very high altitude mountain summit.

Bags of chips (crisps) when taken to the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea would commonly explode.