The awareness of pace I owe to my teacher has served me whether I am seeking the world's highest summits, sharing my love for the mountains with others or kneeling to look my son, Gus, in the eye when he has a question.
This question led to my first big book, Mountains of Debt (Oxford University Press), which compared the U.S. to Victorian Britain and Renaissance Florence, the other rich, powerful, debt-plagued cases.
But my favorite cartographic error is the Mountains of Kong, a range that supposedly stretched like a belt from the west coast of Africa through half the continent.
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In 2002 three of my brothers were snowmobiling in the mountains of Colorado when, snow blinded by a sudden squall, they daisy chained over a 400 foot cliff.
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Keen to find my own way up into the mountains, I ventured into the city center, walking through the bustling sidewalks, underneath the dirty walls of the fading 19th century buildings, past the garish billboards, and brightly lighted storefront windows, and made my way to the public bus terminal.
But maybe my story was kind of bizarre because of the mountains and climbing and snow.
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As we ascended up over mountains and down into a deep valley, my pilot, Melissa Hough, pointed out Disappointment River.
In the mountains however, I was forced to admit my great weakness: vertigo.
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Google Drive failed to find images with generic file names on almost all of my own pictures, even when they included things like mountains or other common objects.
Here in the mountains, where every sunrise starts, I'll heal my heart for awhile.
So my tenth Davos comes to an end and the slow wind down from the mountains to the airport begins.
The second day I was a bit wobbly but went with my hosts deep into the rugged steppe for a traditional barbecue capped by races to the top of mountains and a clifftop midnight wrestling match.
Tonight I will cook dinner, tell my husband how much I love him, curl up with the dogs, watch the sun go down over the mountains and climb into bed.
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