850 Quotes About Altitude

There are no doubts that the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) management teams knew that summit workers were suffering daily from the serious effects of oxygen starvation to the brain and body.

If the astronomy management team becomes aware that you have developed long term high altitude sickness, then it is reasonable to think that you may be terminated soon.

It was clear to me that upper management and astronomers were adverse to going to very high altitude observatories.

Workers should refuse to work in any environment that depresses their blood oxygen levels below 92% SpO2.

When people ask me why I do not work, my response is always ‘I have extensive high altitude biological damage from working in professional astronomy.

Extreme night shift work was lone working for up to eighteen hours per night for several nights on the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea.

Astronomers do not disclose to their nighttime support staff that they are at significant risk of developing shift work sleep disorder (SWSD) and the associated range of other sleep disorders.

Gastrointestinal problems were a feature of working at the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii, USA.

Working at very high altitudes may induce illness and disease into sea level adapted humans.