Mount Stupid can be applied to almost any area of decision-making, and we often find ourselves climbing its slopes in our day-to-day lives.
Mark Spitz and Olga Korbut grabbed the headlines while the atmosphere around the Olympic village was so relaxed that off-duty athletes, returning from late nights in Bavarian beer halls, could often be found climbing into the complex over the low chain-link fence.
For me, climbing is often about looking for excuses not to climb.
Don long trousers, sturdy boots, a hat and a surgical mask (these are distributed to all visitors by park guides at the beginning of a tracking expedition) and prepare yourself for some sweaty, steep climbing through often-dense vegetation.
He says this selfish streak is exacerbated by the fast turnover of commercial climbing expeditions, which often meet for the first time just a couple of weeks before a summit attempt, meaning there is little opportunity to build team morale.
The electricity had failed, as it often did, and the full moon climbing the sky lit the scene indirectly, reflecting off the whitewashed walls, throwing dim shadows around the machinery strewn about, plows and planters, drags, harrows.
Pa. (AP) When Mayor John Callahan talks about Bethlehem's success, he often points to Lehigh University 's picturesque campus climbing South Mountain or Moravian College 's new dorms rising from the historic district.
The nearest subway station is not even in the district and, when its lifts are out of action, which is more often than not, the platform can be reached only by climbing 80 feet of stairs.
Playground accidents, for example, often are the result of a sequence of events, such as climbing too high on a jungle gym.
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