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:
“I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy,
The sleepless soul that perished in his pride;
Of him who walked in glory and in joy
Following his plough, along the mountain side:
By our own spirits are we deified:
We poets in our youth begin in gladness;
But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
“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)