Once you've mastered the basics, apply to train as an apprentice with Alpine Ascents.
Mr Cool said Tuesday's ride, which included ascents totalling 4, 700m (15, 000ft), was "the hardest day ever".
The win for Obama marks one of the most impressive political ascents in American history.
By high school, he'd discovered rock climbing, becoming a self-described "dirtbag" who loved to tackle risky ascents.
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The ascents start from rustic mountain huts and are steep and long, but there is little technical knowledge required.
"It's a tough course, it's windy, there's quite a few ascents, " he said.
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Others favor the Black Keys or Jack White, as much for the strong albums they made as the respect they've accrued during their own hard-fought ascents.
Guiding is a plum job for a unique kind of person: Burleson says that Alpine Ascents receives up to 70 applications a year and accepts 15 of them.
Todd Burleson, president of the guiding company Alpine Ascents International, says aspiring guides should spend three or four years climbing on their own, learning the ropes through friends or through a school.
His other career -- as an adventurer -- came about when he met John Doble, the former British High Commissioner to Swaziland, who introduced him to mountain climbing and funded his first ascents.
Hidden in the jungle for more than a thousand years and only accessible by a 44km trek through inhospitable terrain, visiting Ciudad Perdida gives travellers the chance to live out their Indiana Jones fantasies as they battle rock scrambles, steep ascents and numerous waterfalls along the way.
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