Mauna Kea Sickness (MKS) has cost me close to one million dollars in lost earnings. Long term that figure is expected to rise to four million dollars by age sixty five.

Prolonged altitude sickness generally leads to altitude diseases.

8,000 Feet: Various people will be showing signs and symptoms of Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS).

6,000 Feet: A few people will start showing signs and symptoms of Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS).

When I worked in high altitude astronomy, I was never screened annually by a doctor that was expert in low level radiation sickness (LLRS) and high altitude disease (HAD).

Steven Magee’s body behaves as if it is permanently above 10,000 feet and causes chronic daily altitude sickness, even though he lives in Tucson, Arizona, USA.

Mal-acclimatization occurs when the human has no long term adaptation to any altitude due to frequent changes in altitude over 4,900 feet. Mal-acclimatization may lead to long term sickness, gender issues, genetic changes, disease and premature death in the human.

Whether I like it or not, I am in a life long relationship with low level radiation sickness (LLRS) and high altitude observatory diseases (HAOD).

Many years of altitude sickness in the sea level adapted human should be expected to progress into illness, disease and premature death.