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“The sun turns the ice scarlet and gold as we begin making our way up the side of a mountain. It's a craggy climb.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“It was the clouds I saw first.

Enormous clouds drifting in the cobalt sky, soft and magnanimous, still tinged by the rose remnants of sunrise, their round edges gilded with the golden light. The dewy freshness of morning lingered in the balmy air as we peered up at the mountain-palace spiralling into the heavens above.

If the palace above the Court of Nightmares had been crafted of moonstone, this was made from... sunstone. I didn't have a word for the near-opalescent golden stone that seemed to hold the gleaming of a thousand sunrises within it.

Steps and balconies and archways and verandas and bridges linked the towers and gilded domes of the palace, periwinkle morning glories climbing the pillars and neatly cut blocks of stone to drink in the gilded mists wafting by.

Wafting by, because the mountain on which the palace stood... There was a reason I beheld the clouds first.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“The earliest symptoms of altitude sickness are often memory issues.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“Summit Lag occurs when a summit worker is kept in a permanent state of mal-acclimatization.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“Chemical exposure at high altitude is typically worse than at sea level.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“Altitude Sickness in humans has different classifications.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“Social isolation was prevalent in professional astronomy.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“Systemic inflammation is a component of altitude sickness.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“I was surprised at how simple the treatment for Altitude Hypersensitivity was.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“The skull pains during characterizing Altitude Hypersensitivity had me mystified as to what they were!”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“Altitude sickness is a poorly defined sickness.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“Altitude tourism is a relatively new activity for the masses.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“Many sea level adapted people are inadvertently living at altitude.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“Many products are not rated for use above 10,000 feet.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“The altitude for ground based astronomical telescopes is set, in part, by how sick the management team is prepared to make their mountain summit staff in order to obtain their scientific observations.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“Part of research is testing the final product.”
― Steven Magee

“From his vantage point on the deck, the commoners were ants.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“Let go of our fears... go with the flow... for by faith... rivers can... grain by grain... remove mountains!”
― AshRawArt

“Pray With Me

I know God is in control
Throughout the seasons
Even when I face obstacles
While I wish to hear oracles
As I stand on the edge
Of a mountain so steep
In pursuit of peace
There is one thing I believe
When I go on my knees
And honour His will
Before I seal that deal
I have with destiny
It is my plea
That I be set free
To succeed
Help please
Pray with me!”
― Gift Gugu Mona, From My Mother's Classroom: A Badge of Honour for a Remarkable Woman

“In every corner of the Earth, there is a sign of Heaven. Every mountain, every valley, and every ocean has God written all over.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration

“Faith, as a mustard seed, is what is needed to move your mountain (problem or circumstance). One of the tiniest seeds, there are, and yet it grows into a large tree. Your faith, however small it may be, can do the same. God gives us the faith we need to trust Him. Use your faith today.”
― Paddick van Zyl, Take Time to Reflect

“It was common to have hallucinations atop the very high altitude mountain of Mauna Kea in Hawaii. Oxygen starvation causes it, it is known to start above 12,000 feet and we were at 13,800 feet. When I see people chatting to themselves, I have sympathy for them. They really do believe someone is with them!”
― Steven Magee

“Long COVID appears to be very similar to high altitude diseases.”
― Steven Magee

“COVID-19 is very similar to high altitude diseases.”
― Steven Magee

“Duuni let her questions fall and rode on toward wherever it was she was supposed to go, watching the mountain change slowly, like a jewel turned in the light.”
― Betsy James, Roadsouls

“Taking Amberen was how I discovered the treatment for Altitude Hypersensitivity.”
― Steven Magee, Pandemic Supplements

“As a person with Altitude Hypersensitivity, I spend my time at or near to sea level.”
― Steven Magee, Pandemic Supplements

“It was as if the base of the mountain had been hollowed out by some massive digging beast, leaving a pit descending into the dark heart of the world. Around that gaping hole, carved into the mountain itself, spiralled level after level of shelves and books and reading areas, leading into the inky black. From what I could see of the various levels as I drifted toward the carved stone railing overlooking the drop, the stacks shot far into the mountain itself, like the spokes of a mighty wheel.

And through it all, fluttering like moth's wings, the rustle of paper on parchment.

Silent, and yet alive. Awake and humming and restless, some many-limbed beast at constant work. I peered upward, finding more levels rising toward the House above. And lurking far below... Darkness.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“The Edge by Stewart Stafford

Hanging on the jagged edge,
Taunted to plunge in the deep,
Surfing wild on stormy winds,
Cold sweat at pain's brief sweep.

Nestled in some whirling gusts,
Gooseflesh skin from chilly hands,
A mask for a mimicry ball,
An everyman's muddled land.

Rising from some inner call,
Not a fugazi in Kismet's window.
The path still fogged from sight,
I climb higher, to touch the rainbow.

© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“To refuse the sacrifice of the ascent is to miss the fact that the grandeur of the valley can only be fully appreciated when we see the whole of it rather than spending the entirety of our lives simply walking a part of it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough