Mountain Sickness

Mountain sickness can refer to:

  • Altitude sickness or acute mountain sickness, a pathological condition that is caused by acute exposure to low air pressure
  • Chronic mountain sickness, a disease that can develop during extended time living at altitude

Famous quotes containing the words mountain and/or sickness:

    There, on the mountain and the sky,
    On all the tragic scene they stare.
    One asks for mournful melodies;
    Accomplished fingers begin to play.
    Their eyes mid many wrinkles, their eyes,
    Their ancient, glittering eyes, are gay.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.
    Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990)