Above the Second Gate

How one station's logbooks moved the start of "high altitude" from a contour to a gate

A research poster from the School of Underlying Conditions reads 1,146 ascent entries in the 21 hut logbooks of one unnamed mountain physiology station, coding the place at which each writer first describes the party as "at altitude". The phrase, at first scattered along some 800 metres of climb, settles from the tenth book onward at a stock gate 190 metres below the contour the station's rule names, the gate being where a store shed was built and equipment came to be issued; the poster treats the gate as a boundary object and draws no conclusion about ascent or health.

@misc{slop_2i115r,
  author       = {Brynjar Obiora and Vigdis Emenike and Eivind Onwuka},
  title        = {Above the Second Gate: How one station's logbooks moved the start of "high altitude" from a contour to a gate},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.2i115r},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-above-the-second-2i115r/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}