{"quotes":[{"text":"When I worked at the W. M. Keck Observatory on the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, we would routinely be engulfed in cold clouds of helium and nitrogen gas as we discharged it into the video camera systems daily. The management team never warned us that we were in a hazardous oxygen deprived environment during this activity that was known for its ability to adversely affect physical and mental health, and possibly bring on death by asphyxiation.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["activity","adversely","affect","altitude","asphyxiation","camera","clouds","cold","daily","death","deprived","discharged","engulfed","environment","gas","hawaii","hazardous","health","helium","high","kea","keck","liquid","management","mauna","mental","nitrogen","observatory","oxygen","physical","summit","systems","team","very","video","warned"],"id":50117,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"So if you, O subsequent ones, ever deign to look down at us from your summit of effortless superiority, remember that you have only scaled it on the back of our efforts. For it is thankless to grope in the dark and tempting to rest until the light of understanding shines upon us. But if we are led into this temptation, your kingdom will never come.","author":"Guy Deutscher","tags":["dark","efforts","grope","kingdom","knowledge","light","research","summit","superiority","temptation","understanding"],"id":70098,"author_id":"Guy+Deutscher"},{"text":"My foot slips on a narrow ledge; in that split second, as needles of fear pierce heart and temples, eternity intersects with present time. Thought and action are not different, and stone, air, ice, sun, fear, and self are one. What is exhilarating is to extend this acute awareness into ordinary moments, in the moment-by-moment experiencing of the lammergeier and the wolf, which, finding themselves at the center of things, have no need for any secret of true being. In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us…the present moment. The purpose of mediation practice is not enlightenment’ it is to pay attention even at unextraordinary times, to be of the present, nothing-but-the-present, to bear this mindfulness of now into each event of ordinary life.","author":"Peter Matthiessen","tags":["breath","enlightenment","fear","holiness","meditation","mindfulness","mountain-climbing","mountains","nature","soul","spirit","summit","wonder"],"id":76642,"author_id":"Peter+Matthiessen"},{"text":"At the W.M. Keck Observatory on the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, there was no routine monitoring of mental functioning, blood oxygen levels, blood pressure or heart rate of workers.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["altitude","astrobiology","astronomer","astronomical","astronomy","astrophysics","astrosociobiology","blood","functioning","hawaii","heart","high","kea","keck","mauna","mental","monitoring","observatory","osha","oxygen","pressure","routine","summit","very","workers"],"id":96278,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"The summit of Mauna Kea was definitely a place where it was better to be a hard to replace skilled engineer than an easy to replace technician. It was my experience that once you had developed Mauna Kea Sickness that the management team would blatantly harass you out of your job using nasty inhumane human resources techniques.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["better","blatantly","definitely","developed","engineer","experience","harass","human","job","kea","management","mauna","nasty","place","replace","resources","sickness","skilled","summit","team","technician","techniques"],"id":120320,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"Based on the medical evidence that clearly states that being above 10,000 feet is hazardous to the health of sea level adapted humans, it is clear that all of the manned facilities on top of the 13,796 feet Mauna Kea summit in Hawaii should be removed and the summit restored back to its native environment.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["adapted","environment","evidence","facilities","feet","hawaii","hazardous","health","humans","kea","level","manned","mauna","medical","native","removed","restored","sea","summit","top"],"id":152114,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"Reaching the top of a high mountain is just a personal victory. But for a victory to be important for the society, it has to be useful for the humanity!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["high-mountains","humanity","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","mountains","personal-victory","reaching","reaching-top","society","summit","top","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers","useful-for-the-soceity","useful-or-the-humanity","victory"],"id":215040,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"The summit of Mauna Kea should never have been developed as it is not safe for humans up there. I am now locked into an endless loop of doctors visits for what appears to be classic very high altitude heart, lung \u0026 brain damage because I was unfortunate enough to have worked there.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["altitude","brain","classic","damage","developed","doctors","endless","enough","heart","high","humans","kea","locked","loop","lung","mauna","never","safe","summit","unfortunate","very","visits","worked"],"id":273678,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"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 .","author":"James Rozoff","tags":["immensity","mountain","mountain-climbing","summit"],"id":285617,"author_id":"James+Rozoff"},{"text":"I worked on Mauna Kea for over five years and saw my health severely degrade during that time. Thetwo long term summit workers that I knew well died of disease conditions, another worker went on tocommit suicide, and others were argumentative.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["argue","arguements","arguing","argument","argumentative","arguments","commit","condition","degrade","degraded","disease","health","illness","kea","mauna","severe","sick","sickness","sickness-and-diseases","suicide","summit","work"],"id":292020,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}