75 Quotes About Summit

I observed many employees displaying Mauna Kea Sickness (MKS) on the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

The senior managers would advise their staff to take a break and breath oxygen when they started to exhibit ‘Summit Brain’.

If you support the biologically toxic 1.4 billion dollar Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea, then you are endorsing astronomers illegally damaging their summit workers health.

If you want to make astronomers uncomfortable, you ask to see the health study of all very high altitude workers at the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) since 1967 that details what illnesses and diseases all current and past summit workers have developed and what they died from.

I had two definite encounters with Hawaiian spirits. The first occurred on the forested slopes of Mauna Kea where I spent the night receiving instruction from a spirit. The second was an encounter with Poli’ahu, the snow goddess of Mauna Kea, that occurred near the summit of the sacred Hawaiian mountain.

No, not conquer, that is too foolish a world. Any man who scales a mountain is still but a man, a transient speck compared to the immensity and permanence of a mountain .

But then suddenly there was no place higher to go. I felt my cracked lips stretch into a painful grin. I was on top of the Devil's Thumb. Fittingly, the summit was a surreal, malevolent place, an improbably slender wedge of rock and rime no wider than a file cabinet. It did not encourage loitering. As I straddled the highest point, the south face fell away beneath my right boot for twenty-five hundred feet; beneath my left boot the north face dropped twice that distance.

This summit must be a summit of solutions,

Nations touch at their summits.