Quotes About Altitude

There can be no possible question that cold is felt much more keenly in the thin air of nineteen thousand feet than it is below.

Heights: For all of you who are afraid of heights, think of it like this: The greater the altitude, the more intense the fear may be, but the farther you are from splattering.

The effect of the great and sudden change of altitude made itself felt at once; when I wanted to turn round in my bag, I had to do it a bit at a time, so as not to get out of breath.

In most circumstances when we spend a lengthy amount of time at higher elevations our genes begin to subtly adjust their expression, which prompts cells in our kidneys to make and secrete more erythropoietin, or EPO for short. This hormone stimulates cells in our bone marrow to increase the production of red blood cells, as well as keep the ones already in circulation around past their typical expiration date.

Common sense, in this sense, is like oxygen: the higher you go, the thinner it gets.

on top of a twelve-thousand-foot-high mountain, where, in fact, there were no trees—just scrub and, somewhat incongruously, a dozen or so cows, eyeing us suspiciously.

Because of the high altitude, you get drunk really fast. So everyone's drunk all the time.

Gravity was down to about half sea level.

Damned planes. Too confining, too noisy—too fucking high in the air.

the lifting against the natural force of gravity of two-hundred-odd tons of airplane and three-hundred-odd human beings to an entirely unsustainable altitude of seven or so miles, and then propelling all without interruption for many long hours, suspended by nothing more than a lately realized principle of physics, high above a cold and highly dangerous expanse of sea.

As the Yankee Doodle Dandies climbed into the altiplano (highlands), they sang the popular songs of the day, one of which, "Green Grow the Lilacs Oh," became their signature tune, and forever after they would be known as "greengos.

Anyone who is full of God's Grace will soar and keep on soaring like an eagle throughout his or her lifetime. Oh! yes, God's Grace can take you to the highest altitude even to the zenith or peak of your career or business. So, ask for and quest for the fullness of God's Grace in all you do. -Emeasoba George

I flew helicopters, which actually is the second best view of the earth. The first best view is, I think, a little bit higher.

The Altitude of a person depends upon his attitude

Keep Attitude With High Altitude

Everest Base Camp, where you actually begin to climb the mountain at 17,600 feet, is higher than all but two points in the United States, both in Alaska. Interestingly, you cannot see the upper part of Mount Everest from Base Camp. As it is, you are huffing and puffing by the time you get there, and you wonder when you finally arrive, exhausted, just how in the world you're ever going to survive. We arrived on April 7.

The operation was a radial keratotomy, in which tiny incisions are made in one's corneas to alter the eyes' focal lengths and (presumably) improve vision. However, unbeknownst to me and to virtually every ophthalmologist in the world, at high altitude a cornea thus altered will both flatten and thicken, shortening your focal length and rendering you effectively blind. That is what happened to me about fifteen hundred feet above High Camp in the early morning hours of May 10, 1996.

Nightingale was against it from the start, said we should send in the RAF and bomb the camp from altitude. He said it was the only way to be sure." He gave me a puzzled look. "Did I say something funny?

At the bottom of the box I found part of a map that had been ripped down its centrefold – a 1:40,000 scale depiction of a place called Ootacamund, which turned out on later research to be a British Hill Station in Tamil Nadu. A Hill Station being a place where colonial administrators and the like could use altitude to avoid the oppressive Indian summer heat, since the sensible solution, i.e. abandoning colonialism and moving back to Surrey, obviously never occurred to them.

Are you afraid of heights? Only when I'm on them!

We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.

Altitude sickness, also known as mountain sickness, is caused by a lack of oxygen at great heights. Symptoms include headaches, dizziness, and shortness of breath. Climbers traveling up Mount Erebus train for days by climbing to gradually increasing heights.

In my opinion, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from a greaty height.

In my opinion, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you loook down on them from a great height.