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Chronic Mountain Sickness (CMS) is a disease that can develop during extended time living at a high altitude. It is also known as Monge’s Disease after its first description in 1925 by Carlos Monge. While acute mountain sickness is experienced shortly after ascent to high altitude chronic mountain sickness may develop after many years of living at high altitude. In medicine high altitude is defined as over 2500 metres (8200 ft) but most cases of CMS occur at over 3000 m (10000 ft).