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:
“The mountain pushed us off her knees.
And now her lap is full of trees.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“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)